omenic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having the quality of an omen; carrying ominous or prophetic significance.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
From omen + -ic.