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What does ominous mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant.
  2. Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
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Silent gulls on the wing are ominous, somehow, and not a little threatening.
The atomic fallout is still falling, a silent, ominous dust that isn't remarked upon, only suggested.
Maybe they like feeling small and insignificant when compared to the infinite space above and the ominous desert around them.
They wrote me a very ominous e-mail saying if I relisted the item horrible things would happen to me.
Then the spectre began to laugh, the noise a deep, ominous rasp which snuffed out the spark of hope that had briefly lit Robert's soul.
And in the centre of this ominous landscape is a street crossing with red traffic signals.

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