Portentous - перевод на Русский и значение в Английском

adjective

Having far-reaching and often disastrous consequences or implications.

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A fateful oversight

adjective

Having a very important and often negative effect on the future

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In 1971, president richard nixon made a fateful decision to install tape recorders in the white hou…

adjective

Having an important and usually negative effect on the future

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Fateful day the fateful day of president kennedy's assassination, fateful decision he made the fate…

noun

A feeling that something bad will happen; fearful apprehension.

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With a sense of foreboding she read the note

adjective

Implying that something bad is going to happen.

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When the doctor spoke, his voice was dark and foreboding

verb

(of a situation or occurrence) act as an advance warning of (something bad).

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This lull foreboded some new assault upon him

verb

Be a warning or indication of (a future event).

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Other new measures are foreshadowed in the white paper

noun

The use of details, description, and mood that will take on more meaning later in a written work

adjective

Dark or poorly lit, especially so as to appear depressing or frightening.

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A gloomy corridor badly lit by oil lamps

adjective

Unhappy and without hope

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A gloomy person/expression, the cemetery is a gloomy place.

adjective

Not expecting or believing anything good in a situation

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A gloomy economic forecast, uk the vet is rather gloomy about my cat's chances of recovery.

adjective

→  ill-fated

adjective

Not conducive to success; unpromising.

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Following this inauspicious start the british, outnumbered, withdrew

adjective

Suggesting that success is not likely

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After an inauspicious start, our team went on to win the game 30 to 24.

adjective

Showing signs that something will not be successful or positive

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Inauspicious start after an inauspicious start, scotland went on to win the match.

adjective

Suggesting the presence of danger; threatening.

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Our officers encountered menacing looks from teenagers

verb

Be a threat or possible danger to.

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Africa's elephants are still menaced by poaching

adjective

Making you think that someone is going to do something bad

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A menacing look/gesture

adjective

Of great importance or significance, especially in having a bearing on future events.

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A period of momentous changes in east–west relations

adjective

Very important, esp. because of the effects on future events

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A momentous decision/event

adjective

Giving the worrying impression that something bad is going to happen; threateningly inauspicious.

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There were ominous dark clouds gathering overhead

adjective

Suggesting something unpleasant will happen

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An ominous silence, clouds had gathered ominously.

adjective

Relating to or having the effect of predicting an event or result.

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Predictive accuracy

adjective

Relating to the ability to predict

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The test has a predictive accuracy of 95%., the predictive value of this new method of analysis has…

adjective

Warning about something unpleasant before it happens

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Premonitory signs of the coming revolution can be seen across the previous decades., the patient di…

adjective

Giving the impression that something harmful or evil is happening or will happen.

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There was something sinister about that murmuring voice

adjective

Evil, or suggesting that something evil is going to happen

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She has dark, sinister eyes that make you nervous when she looks at you.

adjective

Having a hostile or deliberately frightening quality or manner.

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Her mother had received a threatening letter

verb

State one's intention to take hostile action against (someone) in retribution for something done or not done.

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How dare you threaten me?

adjective

Expressing the possibility that something unwanted or unpleasant will happen

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Threatening skies meant a storm was coming., she received several threatening phone calls after her…

adjective

Not giving hope of future success or good results.

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The boy's natural intellect had survived in unpromising circumstances

adjective

(of a circumstance) not giving or indicating a good chance of success; unfavourable.

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His reports were submitted at a financially unpropitious time

adjective

Not likely to be successful, or not showing any signs of success

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It may have seemed an unpropitious time for a general election., she assumed power in distinctly un…

noun

A statement or event that warns of something or that serves as a cautionary example.

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Police issued a warning about fake £20 notes

verb

Inform someone in advance of a possible danger, problem, or other unpleasant situation.

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His father had warned him of what might happen

noun

Notice of a possible danger or problem, so that it can be prevented or avoided

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[ c ] flood warnings were issued by the national weather service., [ u ] the earthquake struck with…