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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɒmɪnəs/
• (General American, dialects of Canada) IPA: /ˈɑmɪnəs/
• (Canada, dialects of the 米国発音) IPA: /ˈɒmɪnəs/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈɔmɪnəs/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈɒmənəs/, [ˈɔ̟mənəs]
• ハイフネーション: o‧mi‧nous

形容詞

ominous (comparative more ominous, superlative most ominous)

1. Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant.

   Synonyms: momentous, omenic, portentous; see also Thesaurus:important

   • 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 324:

     In Cornouaille, Brittany, it is popularly believed that the weather of the last six days of December and the first six of January prognosticates the weather of the twelve months; but in other parts of Brittany it is the first twelve days of January that are supposed to be ominous of the weather for the year.

2. Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen

   Synonyms: threatening, portentous, inauspicious; see also Thesaurus:ominous

   • California poll support for Jerry Brown's tax increases has ominous implications for U.S. taxpayers too Los Angeles Times Headline April 25, 2011
   • 2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in The A.V. Club‎:

     The idea of a merchant selling both totems of pure evil and frozen yogurt (he calls it frogurt!) is amusing in itself, as is the idea that frogurt could be cursed, but it’s really the Shopkeeper’s quicksilver shift from ominous doomsaying to chipper salesmanship that sells the sequence.

   • 2021 April 23, Ronald Brownstein, “The racist ‘replacement theory’ has it all backward”, in CNN‎:

     After growing substantially in the 1990s and modestly in the 2000s, the total number of American kids fell from 2010 through 2019, an ominous milestone.

使用する際の注意点

• Formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshadowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread.

派生語

関連する語

• omen
• abomination

Collocations

Further reading

• “ominous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “ominous”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• suimono