ominousadjective
uk/ˈɒm.ɪ.nəs/us/ˈɑː.mə.nəs/suggesting that something unpleasant is likely to happen:
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 my parents' house.
ominous dark clouds
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Predicting things and intuition
- augur
- augury
- bellwether
- betcha
- bode
- far-sighted
- intuit
- intuition
- intuitive
- nasty
- omen
- projection
- prophetic
- psychic
- read sb's mind idiom
- read sb's palm idiom
- read the runes idiom
- scenario
- scent
- visionary
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ominously
adverb uk/ˈɒm.ɪ.nəs.li/us/ˈɑː.mə.nəs.li/
I went into the kitchen and found him lying ominously still on the floor.