My seventh word of the week is ominous.
According to my Mac dictionary, ominous means…
Adj: giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen
Example sentence: He walked into the haunted house and heard an evil and ominous laugh thunder through the room.
This word jumped out at me the other day when I was watching the movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall. There is a scene about half way through the movie where the main character, Peter, is creating background music for a popular crime scene show. He states that the music is mostly a composition of “dark and ominous tones”. From the context, I could assume that ominous meant something evil and wicked that complimented the word “dark”, yet I never knew the exact definition. Now, I do.
