| 单词 | ominous |
| 释义 | om·i·nous 1. < the continual wars and revolutions so ominous of the future — Margaret Parton > 2. < the ominous waves of cloud seemed to advance with terrific speed — O.E.Rölvaag > < a dead and ominous silence prevailed everywhere — J.A.Froude > < the ominous sounds the motor was making — Herbert Passin > Synonyms: < there was something ominous about it, and in intangible ways one was made to feel that the worst was about to come — Jack London > < they formed together an ominous cloud charged with forces of uncertain magnitude, but of the reality of which Italy had already terrible experience — J.A.Froude > portentous is now likely to indicate the prodigious, huge, impressive, marvelous, or monstrous, and only secondarily to suggest the character of a portent, a forewarning of calamity to come < in the midst of a portentous silence, the consul unrolled his papers, evidently intending to produce an effect by the exceeding bigness of his looks — Herman Melville > < something quivered in every fiber of his being, like moonlit ripples on the sea. He felt at the same time a portentous stillness and an immense enterprise — H.G.Wells > fateful may imply an especial importance, often solemn, decreed by fate; it is often simply a synonym for momentous < the moving, fateful story of his death — H.O.Taylor > < the hour seemed awful to them, and the hearts within them burned as though of fateful matters their souls were newly learned — William Morris > < six thousand years ago, the Nile, the begetter of water and grain, was as fateful to the fellah as it is today — Mary Lindsay > inauspicious and unpropitious may suggest the presence of distinctly unfavorable signs or may be simply synonyms for unlucky or unfavorable < while my words with inauspicious thunderings shook Heaven — P.B.Shelley > < unpropitious weather > < an unpropitious attitude for a politician seeking reelection to take > |
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