suggesting that something bad is going to happen in the future synonym foreboding不祥的;恶兆的;不吉利的 There were ominous dark clouds gathering overhead. 不祥的黑云在头顶上汇聚。 She picked up the phone but there was an ominous silence at the other end. 她拿起电话,但对方只有不祥的沉默。 Things looked ominous for Susan. 苏珊觉得事情不妙。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryOminous is used with these nouns:- cloud
- implication
- rumble
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Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Latin ominosus, from omen, omin- ‘omen’.