The meaning of Ominous and additional information.

Ominate(v. t. & i.) To presage; to foreshow; to foretoken.

Omination(n.) The act of ominating; presaging.

Ominous(a.) Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous; -- formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread.