different between portentous vs ominous
portentous
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin portent?sus, from portentus (“predicted”); equivalent to portent +? -ous.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p??(?)?t?nt?s/
Adjective
portentous (comparative more portentous, superlative most portentous)
- Of momentous or ominous significance.
- Synonyms: ominous, momentous
- Ominously prophetic.
- Synonyms: foreshadowing, predictive, premonitory, prognosticatory
- Puffed up with vanity.
Derived terms
- portentously
Related terms
- portent
Translations
portentous From the web:
ominous
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)
- Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant.
- 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
ominous From the web:
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