Today’s “Word of the Day” is “ominous“ and it is an adjective and its meaning is “threatening, menacing, inauspicious, unpromising, unfavourable, foreboding, forbidding, dismal and gloomy”.
Example Sentence: For Europe and the US, which had hoped an opposition victory would see Turkey turn more towards the west, five more years of Mr Erdoğan would be a highly unwelcome development – particularly ahead of a decisive period in Ukraine. For those likely to suffer further erosion of their civil rights in Mr Erdoğan’s increasingly illiberal democracy, Sunday’s setback is a bitter disappointment and an ominous portent (sign/indication).
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Courtesy: The Hindu
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