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Definition of
ill-omened adjective
from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
ill-omened
adjective
adjective
(
formal
)
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(
of an event or activity
)
seeming likely to be unlucky or unsuccessful because there are a lot of unlucky signs relating to it
See
ill-omened
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