Bible Dictionaries
Ominous

Webster's Dictionary

(a.) Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous; - formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Ominous'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​o/ominous.html. 1828.