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Ominous Pronunciation

Pronounce Ominous as OW M IY N OW UW S.

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    Ominous phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'ominous'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of ominous: /oʊmɪnoʊus/
    • Modern IPA representation of ominous: /ɒmɪnɒʊs/

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    List of meaning for ominous

    suggesting that something bad is going to happen in the future

    baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening(adj)

    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"

    ill, inauspicious, ominous(adj)

    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"

    being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come

    that comment about downsizing from the company president sounded ominous

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    ominous in sentence

    1. When I heard the front door slam, I took it as an ominous warning that my father was in a bad mood.

    2. The warning sounds of an ominous storm made us run for cover.

    3. A friendly outing took an ominous turn when the driver realized the bus brakes were no longer working.

    4. The dark clouds gave the sky an ominous appearance.

    5. When the librarian saw my friends and I playing loudly, she gave us an ominous look.

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term ominous

    For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business.

    – D. W. Brogan

    Despite the ominous headlines about a trade war with China, we're comfortable with U.S. equities at current prices amid favorable macro trends and surging earnings growth.

    – Mike Bailey

    We usually expect opinions on the operation of government to shift depending on which party is in charge. But there’s an ominous feeling by Democrats and Republicans alike that a ‘Deep State’ of unelected operatives are pulling the levers of power.

    – Patrick Murray

    Our discussions were based on how to bring under control and eliminate those ominous phenomena which are obstacles to stability, prosperity and cooperation in the region.

    – Afghan President Ashraf Ghani

    We don't think it will detract from the possibility that the Fed is considering a September rate hike, only if we saw ominous signs of a deterioration elsewhere in the data.

    – Sam Bullard

    He is not making some political comment about the relative merits of capitalism and communism. He is rather restating ancient biblical teaching, he is pointing to the ominous signs in nature that suggest that humanity may now have tilled too much and kept too little.

    – Peter Turkson

    Unfortunately two countries which are committed to peace and stability are in danger from regional and international terrorism, our discussions were based on how to bring under control and eliminate those ominous phenomena which are obstacles to stability, prosperity and cooperation in the region.

    – Afghan President Ashraf Ghani

    The moon dropped over like an ominous curtain, it was as if the black-hand of fate had snuffed man’s solar candle. And suddenly the watching thousands realized the wonder of the universe and the weakness of little men.

    – The Post

    Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men's superstitious mind which is the inauspicious one!

    – Mehmet Murat ildan

    The manner in which this journalist was taken, by men claiming to be police, is very ominous and further evidence that the press is not safe in President John Magufuli's Tanzania.

    – Muthoki Mumo

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