Modifying Another Word

• rather: Closing date is a rather ominous Friday 13th April.

• slightly: There was also a fair amount of flood debris everywhere, which was slightly ominous.

• very: This is beginning to look very ominous for Doherty.

• increasingly: One might think Seattle's increasingly ominous test at Kansas City on Sunday without more.

• quite: There is another, quite ominous reason for immediate action.

• too: Nothing is too ominous, except Mars conjunct Venus.

Preposition: for

• future: Interpretations The mutiny by a section of the military could be ominous for the future of democracy in the country.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• look: There are also helmeted police surrounding the Square, looking a touch ominous.

Modifies a noun

• portent: I just hope the reduced number of routes this year is not a ominous portent for 1990.

• rumbling: As we sit down to eat clouds begin to gather and there are ominous rumblings from Zimbabwe.

• understatement: This lousy economy heavy with ominous understatement i respect what tables at the.

• cloud: A vast, ominous dust cloud was crowding out three quarters of the sky in the north west.

• shadow: Its threat casts an ominous shadow on the work done by all journalists.

• silence: The ice - at your heart an ominous silence.

Used with adjective complement

• look: Prior to the event, the forecast looked ominous to say the least.

• seem: The music seemed more ominous to me than the ominous scenes in the film.

• sound: New ways of working for social work sounds ominous.

• become: As July 12 drew closer the threat of even more serious violence became ominous.

• turn: A day later the forecast had turned ominous - heavy rains all weekend and flooding in the metro area.

• appear: One of the beings in front of her appeared less ominous, more compassionate.