OMINOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ominously mean? 

• OMINOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb OMINOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. in an ominous manner

  Familiarity information: OMINOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OMINOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an ominous manner

Context example:

the sun darkened ominously

Pertainym:

ominous (threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments)

 Context examples 

"I said don't break them teeth," the faro-dealer repeated more ominously than before.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“Go ahead and cut,” I threatened ominously.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"It is charged," Ugh-Gluk said ominously, "that thou dealest with evil spirits, wherefore thy hunting is rewarded."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

A long stride measured the schoolroom, and presently beside Miss Temple, who herself had risen, stood the same black column which had frowned on me so ominously from the hearthrug of Gateshead.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She shook her clenched white hand as she spoke, and her lips tightened ominously.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Never did tombs look so ghastly white; never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funereal gloom; never did tree or grass wave or rustle so ominously; never did bough creak so mysteriously; and never did the far-away howling of dogs send such a woeful presage through the night.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He bristled fiercely and looked ominously across the shin-bone at White Fang.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Ah, my boy, he shook his head ominously at me, ’tis the worst schooner ye could iv selected, nor were ye drunk at the time as was I. ’Tis sealin’ is the sailor’s paradise—on other ships than this.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He paused beside Scott and touched him on the shoulder, saying ominously: Don't break them teeth, stranger.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"I don't know, I don't know," Bill muttered ominously.

(White Fang, by Jack London)