| ominou | The sky looks ominous. I wonder if it will rain? |
| ominously | (adv) in an ominous manner, Example: the sun darkened ominously |
| Ominous | a. [ L. ominosus, fr. omen. See Omen. ] Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous; -- formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; He had a good ominous name to have made a peace. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ] In the heathen worship of God, a sacrifice without a heart was accounted ominous. South. [ 1913 Webster ] -- |