Premonition vs Ominous - What's the difference?
premonition | ominous |
A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.
A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).
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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As a noun premonition
is a clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.As an adjective ominous is
of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant.premonition
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(wikipedia premonition)Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* bad feeling, gut feeling, vision, second sight (informal)References
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.}}