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"Ominous"

11 letters · collected on this word page

11 lettersPronunciation /ˈθɹɛtə.nɪŋ/Part of speech adjectiveSorted aeeghinnrttStarts with TEnds with G1 cluesVery common crossword word
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"Ominous"2 answers
baleful7 lettersthreatening11 letters

Filled answer is this word (THREATENING).

Definitions

  1. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

Word origin

From Middle English thretenyng, þreteninde, equivalent to threaten + -ing.

Used in a sentence

  • Never turn your back to someone who is displaying threatening behavior.
  • Fie, fie, vnknit that thretaning vnkinde brovv, / And dart not ſcornefull glances from thoſe eies, / To vvound thy Lord, thy King, thy Gouernour.
  • And nowe lorde beholde their threatenyngꝭ / and graunte vnto thy ſervauntꝭ wyth all confydence to ſpeake thy worde.

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