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Ominous 1100 Words You Need Week 3 Day 3

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Ominous 1100 Words You Need

Ominous 1100 Words You Need

/ˈɒm.ɪ.nəs/ US /ˈɑː.mə-/ (adj)

suggesting that something unpleasant is likely to happen, threatening, foreboding, sinister, forbidding, dark, warning, worrying, gloomy, portentous, menacing, ill-omened, unpromising:

There was an ominous silence when I asked whether my contract was going to be renewed.

The engine had been making an ominous sound all the way from London.

ominous dark clouds

antonym: promising, encouraging

Fre: de mauvais augure

Fa: شوم


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