Word Meanings - PORTENTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Presaging; foreshadowing.

Related words: (words related to PORTENTIVE)

• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• PRESAGIOUS
  Foreboding; ominous.
• PRESAGE
  1. Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury. "Joy and shout -- presage of victory." Milton. 2. Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment. If there be aught
• PRESAGEMENT
  1. The act or art of presaging; a foreboding. Sir T. Browne. 2. That which is presaged, or foretold. "Ominous presagement before his end. " Sir H. Wotton.
• PRESAGEFUL
  Full of presages; ominous. Dark in the glass of some presageful mood. Tennyson.
• PRESAGER
  One who, or that which, presages; a foreteller; a foreboder. Shak.