ominous
英 ['ɒmɪnəs]
美['ɑmɪnəs]
- adj. 预兆的；不吉利的
英英释意
- 1. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments;
- "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"
- 2. presaging ill-fortune;
- "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"
