What's the difference between formidable and ominous?

Formidable


Definition:

  • (a.) Exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to excite fear and deter from approach, encounter, or undertaking; alarming.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This implementation reduced a formidable task to a relatively routine run.
  • (2) It’s likely Xi’s brand of smart authoritarianism will keep not just his party in power but the whole show on the road If all this were to succeed as intended, western liberal democratic capitalism would have a formidable ideological competitor with worldwide appeal, especially in the developing world.
  • (3) That led to the second breakthrough, as the once formidable laws of omerta - silence punishable by death - cracked.
  • (4) "This is a formidable challenge, requiring step changes in the rate at which we improve our energy efficiency and in low-carbon innovation.The Carbon Trust's proposals recognise the need for us to be smarter in focusing our investments, including to help businesses seize the economic opportunities of the transition."
  • (5) The Fellowship combines the academic rigour of an MBA with the reflective and ideological framework of a wellness retreat in Bali; without the sun and spa treatments, but with the added element of the formidable Dame Mary Marsh, a great example of a woman leading as a former headteacher, charity chief executive, NED and leadership development campaigner.
  • (6) But it also demonstrated that he remains a formidably well-connected political player.
  • (7) Since then, Amazon has expanded into other retail categories, such as food, clothing and electricals, and developed a formidable cloud computing service, its own television shows and an electronic personal assistant for people’s homes.
  • (8) As in their previous home game against Leicester City, Everton equalised swiftly through the formidable Lukaku.
  • (9) The difficulties encountered in good experimental design in this formidable area, which may account for the paucity of work, are discussed.
  • (10) Tumor cell heterogeneity is now recognized as the principal cause of treatment failure in cancer, and is a formidable obstacle to effective therapy and to the development of drug delivery systems for selective targeting of antineoplastic agents to tumor cells.
  • (11) A formidable war chest from decades in various businesses has also helped, but it has come with allegations of corruption dating back to his time as a customs official.
  • (12) Bacterial endocarditis remains a formidable diagnostic and therapeutic problem for clinicians.
  • (13) Patients having a double-outlet right ventricle with an unfavorable anatomy for reparative conduit procedure present a formidable surgical challenge.
  • (14) He has strongly insisted that he acted within the law and has assembled a formidable legal team – part-funded by taxpayer money – to fight the accusations.
  • (15) As it is, the team were careless with a comfortable lead in Jamaica (but got away with it ), formidable in their movement against an outclassed Panama , and struggled to get going in the heat and altitude of their game against Honduras .
  • (16) The peptide chemists are facing formidable challenges borne by a continually increasing interest in the pharmaceutical uses of peptides.
  • (17) Graduate physicians face formidable developmental tasks during residency training as they prepare for their professional careers.
  • (18) The hectic pace of office practice can make full assessment of the patient difficult and state-of-the-art management a formidable goal.
  • (19) In classic von Willebrand's disease (vWd), assignment of the heterozygous genotype for genetic studies and diagnosis for clinical purposes (which are not exactly the same) are formidable problems.
  • (20) "It will be a formidably difficult negotiation," he said.

Ominous


Definition:

  • (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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Indeed, his reaction to the nationwide citizens' revolt reveals ominous parallels with another autocratic leader who has recently found himself in a tight spot: Vladimir Putin.
  • (2) As with other malignant salivary gland tumors, advanced stage and pain as a presenting symptom were ominous findings.
  • (3) We reached the following conclusions: The incidence of operative phrenic nerve injury in infants undergoing lateral thoracotomy, particularly for Blalock-Taussig shunt, is higher than generally appreciated; plication is a safe procedure as performed by either an abdominal or thoracic approach; failure to achieve extubation within a week of plication is an ominous prognostic sign; mortality in patients with eventration in the presence of major associated conditions may be high despite plication.
  • (4) A decrease of the activities of all dehydrogenases examined appeared to be prognostically ominous, correlating with a score of 7 or higher.
  • (5) In our report we document that myelofibrosis associated with breast cancer is not an ominous sign.
  • (6) In a comment likely to be seen as ominous at the White House, Comey said the inquiry was “very complex and there is no way for me to give you a timetable as to when it will be done”.
  • (7) Ominous fetal heart rate patterns were less common in hypertensive women without these risk factors; still the significant differences in comparison with normotensive women remained.
  • (8) The presence of liquid neutral fat without an intra-articular fracture is an ominous sign of a significant soft tissue injury.
  • (9) The tracings were scored blindly according to severity of abnormal patterns, and the infants were grouped into ominous, intermediate, and normal scores.
  • (10) The point made here is that loss of biodiversity should be as ominous for microbiologists and biotechnologists as it is to conservationists.
  • (11) In 1997, the Miami Fusion entered the league and ominously played in the old home of the Ft. Lauderdale Strikers (a converted high school stadium).
  • (12) Starting small, with oddly tweaked vocal samples and ominous-sounding piano, the first half is brilliantly brooding, to the point where the first chorus of “I love these streets but they weren’t meant for me to walk” arrives at the 45-second mark just as all the music drops away completely.
  • (13) It’s a seismic moment for the industry and particularly the big European manufacturers who have done a lot of work on diesel: technologically, they have they made the wrong bet.” Some analysts believe fears of brand damage in Europe are overstated but Bailey says: “In the US it’s very different: VW have killed their diesel market and it has left them in a very difficult position.” For British manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover, the timing of VW’s woes was ominous, as it unveiled two new diesels in America.
  • (14) The finding of involvement of para-aortic lymph nodes in patients with adenocarcinoma of the prostate has been considered so ominous that further therapy has often only been palliative.
  • (15) It is ominous because it suggests that the monitors will not be given free access as was hoped.
  • (16) Both clear-cut benign and transitional sebaceous neoplasms should also be recognized as having the potential to undergo an ominous clinical regrowth upon subtotal excision and a complete squamous transformation.
  • (17) She writes: It used to be that evil finance plots at least had the dignity to be conducted in back rooms, with much mustache-twirling and fondling of watch fobs as well as hearty, if ominous laughs.
  • (18) Even more ominous is the fragmentation of the global news agenda, and with it public opinion, into clear propaganda blocs.
  • (19) Having done battle with the Walkie-Scorchie "fryscraper" by Rafael Viñoly – who, somewhat ominously, is also responsible for the Battersea power station masterplan – at least London should be ready for whatever Gehry decides to throw at it.
  • (20) But I think the signs from here on are more ominous for Cameron.