ominous

ominous /'ɔminəs/
  • tính từ
    • báo điềm (xấu, tốt)
    • gở, báo điềm xấu; xấu, đáng ngại
      • an ominous silence: sự yên lặng đáng ngại

Xem thêm: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, sinister, threatening, ill, inauspicious



ominous

Từ điển WordNet

    adj.

  • threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, sinister, threatening

    a baleful look

    forbidding thunderclouds

    his tone became menacing

    ominous rumblings of discontent

    sinister storm clouds

    a sinister smile

    his threatening behavior

    ugly black clouds

    the situation became ugly

  • presaging ill fortune; ill, inauspicious

    ill omens

    ill predictions

    my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"- P.B.Shelley; "a dead and ominous silence prevailed

    a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government


English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary


syn.: sinister threatening unfavorable