Ominous vs Agrarian - What's the difference?
ominous | agrarian |
Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant.
Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen; threatening; portentous; inauspicious.
* California poll support for Jerry Brown's tax increases has ominous implications for U.S. taxpayers too Los Angeles Times Headline April 25, 2011
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Of, or relating to, the ownership, tenure and cultivation of land
Agricultural or rural.
(botany) wild; said of plants growing in a cultivated field
As adjectives the difference between ominous and agrarian
is that ominous is of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant while agrarian is of, or relating to, the ownership, tenure and cultivation of land.As a noun agrarian is
a person who advocates the political interests of working farmers.ominous
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=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.}}