Meanings
- not comparablerareHaving the quality of an omen; carrying ominous or prophetic significance.
Ancient people, and numerous moderns considered the omenic aspects of a dream, the Fragmentations of a Dream Foretold, a manuscript he had once seen was called.
2001, William Gwin, The Night Watchman, Xlibris Corporation, page 783 more examples
This scene impressed us all with its omenic signification, so that we could scarcely wonder that Isolita in her great sorrow received it as a presage of vehicular translation, to be treasured as a token of animus visitations from her departed unity in the flesh.
1877, R. Elton Smile [pseudonym; Elton Romeo Smilie], chapter XXXIII, in The Manatitlans; or A Record of Scientific Explorations in the Andean La Plata, S.A., Buenos Ayres: Imprenta De Razon [actually Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press], →OCLC, page 445Still, despite the advantage of a mind formidable beyond the hours and minutes of my new life, I could not yet fully grasp the omenic meaning of Japan's occupation of Shanghai, or how 6-million unemployed Germans and the Nazis would help lead a march toward world war.
2009, Lee Murphy, Get That Kid Outta Here...!, AuthorHouse, page viiSo again I'd have to say that all the messages that the gods—I'm very omenic, I ask the gods every day what do you think I should do? And every day the gods began to tell me "A$$HOLE A$$HOLE there's nothing to do, there's only the big bad world and the ancient world and there's nothing in between." And so, for the last ten years I did nothing, and now I'm trying to do something, I'm trying to. But I don't know why, and again, I'm very omenic, and so I'm taking this interview omenically.
2023, Kerry O'Brien, William Robin, On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement, University of California Press, page 266Synonyms: inauspicious, portentous, augurous, baleful, bodeful, boding, dire, disastrous
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adjectiveHaving the quality of an omen; carrying ominous or prophetic significance.
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