Báo điềm

ominous of good or evil

báo điềm lành hay điềm dữ

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an ominous silence

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Adj.

Foreboding, threatening, fateful, dark, black, gloomy,lowering or louring, menacing, sinister; unpropitious,unfavourable, ill-omened, ill-starred, unpromising,star-crossed, inauspicious: With ominous solemnity, the judgeplaced a black cloth square on his head before passing the deathsentence. 2 minatory, warning, admonitory, cautionary: Thewhispering had taken on ominous overtones.

Portentous,prophetic, oracular, vaticinal, predictive, prognostic, augural,mantic, sibyllic, meaningful, premonitory, foreshadowing,foretelling, foretokening, indicative: Virtually everything wasregarded as ominous in ancient times.

Adj.

Threatening; indicating disaster or difficulty.

Ofevil omen; inauspicious.

Giving or being an omen.

Ominously adv. ominousness n. [L ominosus (as OMEN)]