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# ominous

«ominous» in Mova's school dictionary: **showing that something bad is about to happen; it is a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more ominous, most ominous)

### meaning for a pupil

Ominous means showing that something bad is about to happen; it is a warning sign. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ominous/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories an ominous sign, sound or silence warns that trouble is coming

### examples

- The dark clouds looked ominous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ominous/#x1)
- An ominous silence fell over the forest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ominous/#x2)
- He ignored the ominous warning and went on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ominous/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ominous» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ominous/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.