(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.
Prescient
Definition:
(a.) Having knowledge of coming events; foreseeing; conscious beforehand.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the prescient words of a memo written in 1949 by Sir Henry Tizard, the distinguished military scientist, the trouble with Britain having the atom bomb was that it made the country blind to reality.
(2) The duke’s statements about business, which to our tin ears sound like simplistic platitudes of the first water, are in fact fantastically complex and prescient exercises of soft power without which our economy simply could not function.
(3) Most, though, opt for that dreadfully prescient quote, given a few years before he died in a Porsche with a friend, doing 90mph, and after he had shot about half his scenes for the new F&F movie.
(4) Indeed, his 1914 satire on the fashion for eugenic family planning ( The White Hope ) was oddly prescient.
(5) "There may be little point in spending many millions of pounds simply to convert an unpleasant but visible marine poison into another kind of poison that is insidious and entirely unknown in its effects," he presciently wrote.
(6) Artists like Duchamp were so prescient here – the idea that the piece of work is not finished until the audience comes to it and adds their own interpretation, and what the piece of art is about is the grey space in the middle.
(7) It ended up being a prescient move: the game got out of reach early as the Lakers scored just four points in the game's first five minutes and were already down 18 points by halftime.
(8) Commotion Wireless may prove to have been presciently named.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ukip’s rise in the east of England: a world turned upside down – video He then made this prescient statement: “We have got much to sort out in the party … Policy is part of the answer.
(10) The site was laid out by Albert Speer Jr, son of Hitler’s architect, who also planned the Beijing Olympics – a strangely prescient choice, given his father coined the idea of “ruin value” in his grandiose Nazi works.
(11) The convergence, in such a short space of time, of the controversy surrounding the banning of "kill the boer" and the murder of Terre'Blanche is both tragic and prescient; it encapsulates the death of optimism in South Africa .
(12) In today’s context, at the end of a week in which Hillary Clinton has yet again found herself face-to-face with a sceptical press demanding answers about her use of a private email address while working as America’s top diplomat, her robust words almost two decades ago sound uncannily prescient.
(13) Picking Enotiades for the job – rather than Gaye – proved to be a prescient choice.
(14) Someone should point out, in these days when the constitution is so constantly and pietistically invoked, that political parties are not mentioned in the constitution, and that the prescient founders warned emphatically against them for reasons that should be clear to us now.
(15) Again, back in 2010, it seemed shocking; now, in the midst of a so-called rape culture, it seems horrifyingly prescient.
(16) Calling pensions a "broken market", McClymont presciently predicted that the government would never stand up to this greatest of vested interests.
(17) One slogan, however, was to prove particularly prescient: 'When the Chinese people get angry, the result is always big trouble.'
(18) With the benefit of nearly 250 days of hindsight, Mariano Rajoy’s words a few hours after Spain’s most significant election since its return to democracy appear utterly prescient – if a little on the optimistic side.
(19) The big society revolution, he warned presciently, "would not happen by itself".
(20) Given that the current US president disputes the hard evidence of climate change, I can’t think of a more prescient play for today – one which proves that 30s theatre had depth-charge impact.