Omenic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Omenic is an adjective meaning (rare) Having the quality of an omen; carrying ominous or prophetic significance.
Meaning
(rare) Having the quality of an omen; carrying ominous or prophetic significance.
Example Sentences
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.
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.
Still, 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.
So 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.
Synonyms for omenic
Depending on context, synonyms include inauspicious, portentous, augurous, baleful, bodeful, boding.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ominous, omened, portentous, presagious, boding, propitious.
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