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Definition: Ill-omened |
Ill-omenedAdjective1. Marked by or promising bad fortune; "their business venture was doomed from the start"; "an ill-fated business venture"; "an ill-starred romance"; "the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons"- W.H.Prescott. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ill-omened" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: Ill-omenedSynonyms: doomed (adj), ill-fated (adj), ill-starred (adj), unlucky (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Adversity | Planet-struck, devoted; born under an evil star, born with a wooden ladle in one's mouth; ill-fated, ill-starred, ill-omened. |
Hopelessness | Unpromising, unpropitious; inauspicious, ill-omened, threatening, clouded over. |
Untimeliness | Adjective: ill-timed, mistimed; ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred; untimely, unseasonable; out of date, out of season; inopportune, timeless, intrusive, untoward, mal a propos, unlucky, inauspicious, infelicitous, unbefitting, unpropitious, unfortunate, unfavorable; unsuited; inexpedient. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ill-omened |
| English words defined with "ill-omened": Ill-boding. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ill-omened": Seven Sisters. (references) |
| "Ill-omened" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ill-omened" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "ill-omened"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i pafat (hapless, ill fated, ill-starred, inauspicious, infelicitous, luckless, unblessed, unchancy, unfortunate, unlucky, unsuccessful, untoward), fatkeq (calamitous, fortuneless, hapless, ill fated, miserable, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, washout, wretched). (various references) | |
Arabic | مشؤوم (disastrous, inauspicious, ominous, sinister, unfortunate, unlucky). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | който предвещава зло, злокобен (dire, inauspicious, ominous, portentous, sidereal, sinister), зловещ (bodeful, creepy, eerie, eery, lurid, ominous, portentous, screamy, sinister). (various references) | |
German | unter einem unstern stehen, unter einem unglücklichen stern stehend, unglückselig (disastrous, fated, hapless, ill fated, lamentable, lamentably, miserable, unfortunate, unlucky). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vészjósló (forbidding, of evil omen, portentous, sinister). (various references) | |
Italian | nefasto (fatal, fateful, inauspicious, malign, portentous, sinister). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 不祥 (disgraceful, inauspicious, ominous, scandalous). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふしょう (disagreement, disapproval, disgraceful, dissent, inauspicious, incompetent, injury, my humble self, my unworthy self, objection, ominous, refusal, scandalous, unidentified, unknown, wound, your humble servant). (various references) | |
Manx | drogh-vonneydagh (ominous). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ill-omeneday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ilogismo. (various references) | |
Romanian | nenorocos (hapless, ill, ill fated, ill-starred, infelicitous, luckless, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky), nefavorabil (adverse, bad, disadvantageous, foul, ill disposed, ill-affected, unfavorable, unfavourable, unfriendly, unpropitious). (various references) | |
Russian | зловещий (bodeful, direful, grim, inauspicious, ominous, sinister), предвещающий несчастье (bodeful). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zlokoban (bodeful, dark, disastrous, inauspicious, sinister). (various references) | |
Spanish | de mal agüero (ominous). (various references) | |
Swedish | olycksförföljd (ill fated), olycksalig (ill fated). (various references) | |
Thai | อัปมงคล. (various references) | |
Turkish | uğursuz (accursed, accurst, baleful, black, bloody, demon, dire, evil, fateful, hoodoo, ill fated, inauspicious, ominous, portentous, sinister, unlucky, untoward), tâlihsiz (cursed, disastrous, down on one's luck, evil, grief-stricken, hapless, ill fated, ill-starred, inauspicious, infelicitous, star-crossed, unfortunate, unlucky), meşum (inauspicious, ominous). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | gở (portentous, sinister), báo điềm xấu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | abominandum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "ill-omened" (pronounced 'Ill`-o"mened'): Stamened. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-l-l-m-n-o" | |
-1 letter: nielloed. | |
-2 letters: eloined. | |
-3 letters: delime, dolmen, domine, emodin, indole, limned, lomein, melled, meloid, milden, milled, moiled, moline, mollie, monied, nellie, niello, nilled, oilmen, oleine, omened. | |
-4 letters: demon, denim, diene, donee, edile, elemi, elide, eloin, emend, indol, lemon, leone, limed, limen, lined, loden, melon, mille, mined, model, monde, monie, oiled, olden, oldie, olein. | |
-5 letters: deem, deil, dele, deli, dell, deme, demo, dene, deni, diel, dill, dime, dine, diol, dole, doll, dome, done, eide, enol, idem, idle, idol, lend, leno, lido, lied, lien, lime, limn, limo, line, lino, lion, lode, loin, lone, meed, meld, mell, mend, meno, mien, mild, mile, mill, milo, mind, mine, mode, modi, moil, mold, mole, moll, need, neem, nide, nill, node, nodi, noel, noil, nome, omen. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-l-l-m-n-o" | |
+2 letters: misenrolled, remodelling. | |
+5 letters: disembowelling, novemdecillion. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6C 6C 2D 6F 6D 65 6E 65 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101100 01101100 00101101 01101111 01101101 01100101 01101110 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I l l - o m e n e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006C 006C 002D 006F 006D 0065 006E 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43787815817971807170 |
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