Usually means: Suggesting something bad will happen.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word ominously:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. ominously: Merriam-Webster
  2. ominously: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ominously: Collins English Dictionary
  4. ominously: Vocabulary.com
  5. Ominously, ominously: Wordnik
  6. ominously: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. ominously: Wiktionary
  8. ominously: Dictionary.com
  9. ominously: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. ominously: Rhymezone
  11. ominously: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. ominously: FreeDictionary.org
  13. ominously: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. ominously: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ominously: Legal dictionary

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▸ adverb:  In an ominous manner; with sinister foreboding.

Similar:
portentously, forebodingly, darkly, sinisterly, menacingly, balefully, gloomingly, gloomily, darksomely, darkishly, more...

Opposite:
auspiciously

Phrases:
ominously angry, more...

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    black,     dark gray,     blood red,     deep purple,     midnight blue, more...

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Similar:
portentously, forebodingly, darkly, sinisterly, menacingly, balefully, gloomingly, gloomily, darksomely, darkishly, more...

Opposite:
auspiciously

Phrases:
ominously angry, more...

Colors:
    black,     dark gray,     blood red,     deep purple,     midnight blue, more...



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