different between ominous vs apocalyptic

English

Etymology

From Latin ominosus (“full of foreboding”), from omen (“forbidden fruit, omen”), from os (“the mouth”) + -men.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??m?n?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??m?n?s/
• Hyphenation: o?mi?nous

Adjective

ominous (comparative more ominous, superlative most ominous)

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

   Synonyms: threatening, portentous, inauspicious

   • California poll support for Jerry Brown's tax increases has ominous implications for U.S. taxpayers too Los Angeles Times Headline April 25, 2011

Usage notes

• Formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshadowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread.
• Nouns to which "ominous" is often applied: sign, silence, warning, cloud, note, sound, shadow, threat, music, tone, implication, message, presence, development, voice, portent, turn, sky, figure, dream, event, trend, change, day, beginning, growl, cry, signal, pattern.

Synonyms

• portentous
• sinister
• threatening

Derived terms

• ominously
• ominousness

Related terms

• omen
• abomination

Translations

Further reading

• ominous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ominous in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• suimono

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????????? (apokaluptikós, “revelatory”), from ???????????? (apokalúptein, “to reveal, uncover”), from ??? (apó, “off”) + ????????? (kalúptein, “to cover”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??p?.k?.l?p.t?k/

Adjective

apocalyptic (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to an apocalypse:
   1. Of or relating to an apocalypse (a revelation), revelatory; prophetic.
      • 1985, Donald A. Hagner, Apocalyptic Motifs in the Gospel of Matthew: Continuity and Discontinuity, quoted in 2007 by Jonathan T. Pennington in Heaven and Earth in the Gospel of Matthew, page 92:

        "From beginning to end, and throughout, the Gospel makes such frequent use of apocalyptic motifs and the apocalyptic viewpoint that it deserves to be called the apocalyptic Gospel."

      • 2002, Peter W. Smith, In the Day of the Lord: The Exciting and Promised Fulfillment, page 7:

        This was because apocalyptic stories — from the Greek word apohalupsis which means “reveal” — uses the vocabulary of symbols and numbers and contains concealed messages that secular listeners cannot comprehend.

   2. Of or relating to an apocalypse (a disaster).
      • 2001, Richard A. Horsley, Hearing the whole story: the politics of plot in Mark's gospel, page 122:

        In fact, interpreters commonly declare that Mark is an "apocalyptic" Gospel. When they read Jesus' long speech toward the end of the Gospel (chap. 13), they even detect a veritable "apocalypse": "Wars and rumors of wars, […] "

      • 2010, Philip Leroy Culbertson, Elaine Mary Wainwright, Bible in popular culture, page 184:

        These bookends house a wealth of apocalyptic stories. The Bible, like some street preacher with a sign, shouts, “The end is near!”

2. Portending a future apocalypse (disaster, devastation, or doom).
3. (nonstandard) Eggcorn of apoplectic.

   He was apocalyptically furious.

Antonyms

• nonapocalyptic

Derived terms

• apocalyptical
• apocalypticist
• apocalypticalist (rare)
• post-apocalyptic

Translations

Noun

apocalyptic (plural apocalyptics)

1. One who predicts apocalypse.

Synonyms

• apocalypticist
• doomsayer

Translations