ominous
adjective
portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious.
ominousness
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a word derived from
ominous.
Example Sentences
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Traditional Latin prayers sung by men have a heavy, chant-like ominousness; the two female angels who appear in the visions convey an urgent, slightly dissonant ecstasy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026
Blackening skies swirled with cloudy ominousness from before noon until after nightfall as the National Weather Service issued flurries of tornado watches and tornado warnings.
From Washington Post ● May 27, 2022
Kaufmann translated it as “tremendous,” which takes away too much of the ominousness.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 7, 2019
The last 20 minutes or so of the film try desperately to create drama out of an ending we all already know, milking every moment for maximum ominousness.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2017
First a terrible ominousness would fill the air.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
