Dictionary Entry
ominous
ominous is a 7-letter English word with 3 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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; as, an ominous dread. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 3 senses
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- 1adjective
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; as, an ominous dread.
- 2adjective
presaging ill fortune- P.B.Shelley
"ill omens"
"ill predictions"
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- 3adjective
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
"a baleful look"
"forbidding thunderclouds"
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