Ominously

//ˈɒmɪnəsli//

Synonyms for "ominously" (3 found)

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Adverb(1 words)

Related words (1)

Adverb(1 words)

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Translations

10 translations across 6 languages.

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Catalan

1 entries
  • ominosament adv (in an ominous manner)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 不吉利地 adv (in an ominous manner)
  • 不详地 adv (in an ominous manner)

Finnish

2 entries
  • enteellisesti adv (in an ominous manner)
  • pahaenteisesti adv (in an ominous manner)

Macedonian

2 entries
  • зловесно adv (in an ominous manner)
  • злокобно adv (in an ominous manner)

Romanian

2 entries
  • amenințător adv (in an ominous manner)
  • sinistru adv (in an ominous manner)

Russian

1 entries
  • злове́ще adv (in an ominous manner)

Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

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An anthropologist wrongly applied the word "Semitic" not just to languages like Arabic, Amharic, Tigrinya and Hebrew but specifically to ethnically and culturally Jewish people. More ominously, from 1880 through the Nazi period of German history, racists extended the word "Aryan," which had meant the Sanskrit-Persian language family, to deliberately foster the vile and discredited theory of a so-called Aryan race.

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The thunder rumbled ominously in the distance.

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From first to last he was ominously polite, and ominously silent.

Source: wiktionary

His nostrils flared ominously and his fists opened and closed at his sides.

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