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  • 61ominous — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. inauspicious, bodeful, fateful. See warning, prediction, threat. Ant., unthreatening. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. foreboding, portentous, threatening, forbidding, fateful, baleful, menacing,… …

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  • 62Omen — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Omen >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 omen omen portent presage prognostic augury auspice Sgm: N 1 sign sign &c.(indication) 550 Sgm: N 1 harbinger harbinger &c.(precursor) 64 …

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  • 63ominous — adj 1. portentous, foreboding, bodeful, ill boding, boding evil, ill omened, of evil portent; inauspicious, unpropitious, unfavorable, unpromising, unfortunate, unlucky, ill fated, ill starred, star crossed, doomed from the start; threatening,… …

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  • 64portentous — adj 1. momentous, fraught, charged, heavy, laden; serious, grave, weighty, consequential, significant; crucial, critical, climacteric, eventful, pivotal, decisive; major, landmark, considerable, vital, of vital interst, all important, of the… …

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  • 65prophetic — adj 1. oracular, augural, divinatory, vaticinal, mantic, fatidic, sibyllic; predictive, prognostic, foretelling, forecasting, forewarning; premonitory, significant, meaningful; preindicative, foretokening, foreshowing, foreshadowing. 2. ominous,… …

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  • 66bod´ing|ly — bod|ing «BOH dihng», noun, adjective. –n. a premonition; omen; portent: »a boding of disaster. –adj. portending; ominous: »listening to the boding cry of the tree toad (Washington Irving). ╂[Old English bodung < bodian announce < boda… …

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  • 67bod|ing — «BOH dihng», noun, adjective. –n. a premonition; omen; portent: »a boding of disaster. –adj. portending; ominous: »listening to the boding cry of the tree toad (Washington Irving). ╂[Old English bodung < bodian announce < boda messenger] – …

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  • 68ob|scene´ness — ob|scene «uhb SEEN», adjective. 1. offending modesty or decency; impure; filthy; vile: »obscene language, books, or pictures, an obscene joke or dance. SYNONYM(S): indecent, gross, lewd, ribald. 2. Archaic. loathsome; disgusting; …

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  • 69ob|scene´ly — ob|scene «uhb SEEN», adjective. 1. offending modesty or decency; impure; filthy; vile: »obscene language, books, or pictures, an obscene joke or dance. SYNONYM(S): indecent, gross, lewd, ribald. 2. Archaic. loathsome; disgusting; …

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  • 70ob|scene — «uhb SEEN», adjective. 1. offending modesty or decency; impure; filthy; vile: »obscene language, books, or pictures, an obscene joke or dance. SYNONYM(S): indecent, gross, lewd, ribald. 2. Archaic. loathsome; disgusting; …

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