portentous

  • 31portentousness — portentous ► ADJECTIVE 1) of or like a portent; ominous. 2) excessively solemn. DERIVATIVES portentously adverb portentousness noun …

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  • 32ominous — adjective ominous clouds Syn: threatening, menacing, baleful, forbidding, sinister, inauspicious, unpropitious, unfavorable, unpromising; portentous, foreboding, fateful, premonitory; black, dark, gloomy; formal minatory; literary direful; rare… …

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  • 33ominous — ominous, portentous, fateful, inauspicious, unpropitious basically mean having a menacing or threatening character or quality. What is ominous has or seems to have the character of an omen, especially of an omen forecasting evil; the term… …

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  • 34ominous — ominously, adv. ominousness, n. /om euh neuhs/, adj. 1. portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious: an ominous bank of dark clouds. 2. having the significance of an omen. [1580 90; < L ominosus portentous, equiv. to omin (s.&#8230; …

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  • 35ominous — adjective Date: 1580 being or exhibiting an omen ; portentous; especially foreboding or foreshadowing evil ; inauspicious • ominously adverb • ominousness noun Synonyms: ominous, portentous, fateful mean havi …

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  • 36Kefaya — (Arabic كفاية, Egyptian Arabic for “Enough!”) is the unofficial moniker of the Egyptian Movement for Change (Arabic الحركة المصرية من أجل التغيير el Haraka el Masreyya men agl el Taghyeer ), a grassroots coalition which draws it support from&#8230; …

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  • 37ominous — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. inauspicious, bodeful, fateful. See warning, prediction, threat. Ant., unthreatening. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. foreboding, portentous, threatening, forbidding, fateful, baleful, menacing,&#8230; …

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  • 38ominous — om•i•nous [[t]ˈɒm ə nəs[/t]] adj. 1) portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious 2) having the significance of an omen • Etymology: 1580–90; &LT; L ōminōsus portentous, der. of ōmin omen om′i•nous•ly, adv. om′i•nous•ness, n.&#8230; …

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  • 39τερατωδέστερον — τερατώδης portentous adverbial comp τερατώδης portentous masc acc comp sg τερατώδης portentous neut nom/voc/acc comp sg …

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  • 40τερατώδει — τερατώδης portentous masc/fem/neut nom/voc/acc dual (attic epic) τερατώδης portentous masc/fem/neut dat sg τερατώδεϊ , τερατώδης portentous dat sg (epic) …

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