Definitions for ominous

ominous om·i·nous

Spelling: [om-uh-nuh s]
IPA: /ˈɒm ə nəs/

Ominous is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 118 anagrams from letters in ominous (imnoosu).

Definitions for ominous

adjective

  1. portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious:
  2. indicating the nature of a future event, for good or evil; having the significance of an omen; being a portent:

Origin of ominous

1580-90; Latin ōminōsus portentous, equivalent to ōmin- (stem of ōmen) omen + -ōsus -ous

Examples for ominous

The spectacle as night fell was strange, ominous, but not unpicturesque.

He wrote that he deserved to die and alluded to a ominous plan that he had backed out of twice already.

This made all the inhabitants of that melancholy and ominous apartment.

“Wars of enormous consequence are fought in places that have no value to anyone,” Burke said with an ominous tone.

It seemed an extraordinary thing, an ominous object, a sign.

The drumbeat and synth bass are as insistent as they are ominous.

In the back of my mind I was wondering how much time we had before there might be an ominous knock at the door.

In The Lodger an ominous character paced the floor, which Hitchcock constructed of glass.

An ominous leave-taking was his, and calamity was there to greet him home again.

At this ominous sight, I instinctively seized the bitts for protection.

Word Value for ominous
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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