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"2": "ominous",
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],
"etymology_text": "From ominous + -ly.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more ominously",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most ominously",
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"superlative"
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1983, Patricia Hagan, Golden Roses",
"text": "His nostrils flared ominously and his fists opened and closed at his sides.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1999, Harish Kapadia, “Accident and Rescue in the Nanda Devi Sanctuary”, in Across Peaks & Passes in Kumaun Himalaya, New Delhi: Indus Publishing Company, page 70",
"text": "However, the next day dawned ominously with an overcast sky and we postponed our start till 8 o'clock.",
"type": "quotation"
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"In an ominous manner; with sinister foreboding."
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"manner"
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"sinister"
],
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"foreboding"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "in an ominous manner",
"word": "ominosament"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "in an ominous manner",
"word": "不详地"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "in an ominous manner",
"word": "不吉利地"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "in an ominous manner",
"word": "pahaenteisesti"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "in an ominous manner",
"word": "enteellisesti"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "zlokobno",
"sense": "in an ominous manner",
"word": "злокобно"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "zlovesno",
"sense": "in an ominous manner",
"word": "зловесно"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "in an ominous manner",
"word": "amenințător"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "in an ominous manner",
"word": "sinistru"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zlovéšče",
"sense": "in an ominous manner",
"word": "злове́ще"
}
]
}
],
"word": "ominously"
}
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"ref": "1983, Patricia Hagan, Golden Roses",
"text": "His nostrils flared ominously and his fists opened and closed at his sides.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1999, Harish Kapadia, “Accident and Rescue in the Nanda Devi Sanctuary”, in Across Peaks & Passes in Kumaun Himalaya, New Delhi: Indus Publishing Company, page 70",
"text": "However, the next day dawned ominously with an overcast sky and we postponed our start till 8 o'clock.",
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],
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"In an ominous manner; with sinister foreboding."
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"translations": [
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "in an ominous manner",
"word": "ominosament"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "in an ominous manner",
"word": "不详地"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "in an ominous manner",
"word": "不吉利地"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "in an ominous manner",
"word": "pahaenteisesti"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "in an ominous manner",
"word": "enteellisesti"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "zlokobno",
"sense": "in an ominous manner",
"word": "злокобно"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "zlovesno",
"sense": "in an ominous manner",
"word": "зловесно"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "in an ominous manner",
"word": "amenințător"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "in an ominous manner",
"word": "sinistru"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zlovéšče",
"sense": "in an ominous manner",
"word": "злове́ще"
}
],
"word": "ominously"
}
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