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old-fashioned<br />

adj. antiquated, antique, pass‚, out-moded, out-dated,<br />

unfashionable, stale, out-dated, dated, out <strong>of</strong> date, tired,<br />

old-time, obsolete, obsolescent, dead, superseded, replaced,<br />

disused, out, old-fangled, old hat: Whoever thought we would<br />

see the day when miniskirts were old-fashioned?<br />

15.10 omen...<br />

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omen n. portent, augury, sign, token, foretoken, indication,<br />

harbinger, forewarning, premonition, foreshadowing, writing on<br />

the wall, prognostic, presage: Solar eclipses were once<br />

regarded as omens, sometimes good, sometimes bad.<br />

ominous adj. 1 foreboding, threatening, fateful, dark, black, gloomy,<br />

lowering or louring, menacing, sinister; unpropitious,<br />

unfavourable, ill-omened, ill-starred, unpromising,<br />

star-crossed, inauspicious: With ominous solemnity, the judge<br />

placed a black cloth square on his head before passing the death<br />

sentence. 2 minatory, warning, admonitory, cautionary: <strong>The</strong><br />

whispering had taken on ominous overtones. 3 portentous,<br />

prophetic, oracular, vaticinal, predictive, prognostic, augural,<br />

mantic, sibyllic, meaningful, premonitory, foreshadowing,<br />

foretelling, foretokening, indicative: Virtually everything was<br />

regarded as ominous in ancient times.<br />

omission n. 1 non-inclusion, omitting, leaving out or <strong>of</strong>f, excluding,<br />

eliminating, dropping, skipping; exclusion, exception, deletion,<br />

elimination, excision: <strong>The</strong> omission <strong>of</strong> your name from the list<br />

was a mistake. Allowing for inadvertent omissions, the inventory<br />

is complete. 2 failure, default, neglect, dereliction,<br />

oversight, shortcoming, negligence: She is being punished for<br />

her innocent omission in failing to notify the police while he<br />

is at liberty despite his deliberate commission <strong>of</strong> a crime.<br />

omit v. 1 leave out, exclude, skip, except, pass over; delete,<br />

erase, cancel, eradicate, edit out, strike (out), dele, cut<br />

(out), cross out, obliterate: She was <strong>of</strong>fended because he<br />

omitted any mention <strong>of</strong> all that she had contributed. 2 neglect,<br />

disregard, fail, forget, overlook, let slide, ignore: I omitted<br />

to tell you that your sister telephoned yesterday.

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