portent
English Thesaurus
1. a sign of something about to happen (noun.event)
| hypernym | : | augury, foretoken, preindication, sign, |
| definition | : | an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come (noun.event) |
| hyponym | : | auspice, |
| definition | : | a favorable omen (noun.event) |
| hyponym | : | foreboding, |
| definition | : | an unfavorable omen (noun.event) |
| hyponym | : | death knell, |
| definition | : | an omen of death or destruction (noun.event) |
| derivation | : | ill, inauspicious, ominous, |
| definition | : | presaging ill fortune (adj.all) |
| derivation | : | baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening, |
| definition | : | threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments (adj.all) |
| derivation | : | fateful, foreboding, portentous, |
| definition | : | ominously prophetic (adj.all) |
| derivation | : | predictive, prognostic, prognosticative, |
| definition | : | of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions (adj.all) |
| derivation | : | portentous, prodigious, |
| definition | : | of momentous or ominous significance (adj.all) |
| derivation | : | ill, inauspicious, ominous, |
| definition | : | presaging ill fortune (adj.all) |
| derivation | : | baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening, |
| definition | : | threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments (adj.all) |
| derivation | : | fateful, foreboding, portentous, |
| definition | : | ominously prophetic (adj.all) |
| derivation | : | predictive, prognostic, prognosticative, |
| definition | : | of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions (adj.all) |
| derivation | : | portentous, prodigious, |
| definition | : | of momentous or ominous significance (adj.all) |
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