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old-fashioned
adj. antiquated, antique, pass‚, out-moded, out-dated,
unfashionable, stale, out-dated, dated, out of date, tired,
old-time, obsolete, obsolescent, dead, superseded, replaced,
disused, out, old-fangled, old hat: Whoever thought we would
see the day when miniskirts were old-fashioned?
15.10 omen...
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omen n. portent, augury, sign, token, foretoken, indication,
harbinger, forewarning, premonition, foreshadowing, writing on
the wall, prognostic, presage: Solar eclipses were once
regarded as omens, sometimes good, sometimes bad.
ominous adj. 1 foreboding, threatening, fateful, dark, black, gloomy,
lowering or louring, menacing, sinister; unpropitious,
unfavourable, ill-omened, ill-starred, unpromising,
star-crossed, inauspicious: With ominous solemnity, the judge
placed a black cloth square on his head before passing the death
sentence. 2 minatory, warning, admonitory, cautionary: The
whispering had taken on ominous overtones. 3 portentous,
prophetic, oracular, vaticinal, predictive, prognostic, augural,
mantic, sibyllic, meaningful, premonitory, foreshadowing,
foretelling, foretokening, indicative: Virtually everything was
regarded as ominous in ancient times.
omission n. 1 non-inclusion, omitting, leaving out or off, excluding,
eliminating, dropping, skipping; exclusion, exception, deletion,
elimination, excision: The omission of your name from the list
was a mistake. Allowing for inadvertent omissions, the inventory
is complete. 2 failure, default, neglect, dereliction,
oversight, shortcoming, negligence: She is being punished for
her innocent omission in failing to notify the police while he
is at liberty despite his deliberate commission of a crime.
omit v. 1 leave out, exclude, skip, except, pass over; delete,
erase, cancel, eradicate, edit out, strike (out), dele, cut
(out), cross out, obliterate: She was offended because he
omitted any mention of all that she had contributed. 2 neglect,
disregard, fail, forget, overlook, let slide, ignore: I omitted
to tell you that your sister telephoned yesterday.