Word Meanings - PREMONITORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Giving previous warning or notice; as, premonitory symptoms of disease. -- Pre*mon"i*to*ri*ly, adv.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PREMONITORY)

• Ominous
• Portentous
• suggestive
• threatening
• foreboding
• premonitory
• unpropitious
• Indicative
• prophetic
• predictive
• ominous
• Precursory
• Prevenient
• antecedent
• introductory
• prefatory
• initiatory
• prior
• prognosticative
• Prophetic
• Predictive
• portentous
• fatidical
• oracular
• sibylline

Related words: (words related to PREMONITORY)

• PROPHETIC; PROPHETICAL
  Containing, or pertaining to, prophecy; foretelling events; as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of before the thing foretold. And fears are oft prophetic of the event. Dryden.
• PRIORSHIP
  The state or office of prior; priorate.
• FOREBODINGLY
  In a foreboding manner.
• ANTECEDENT
  1. Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause. 2. Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability. Syn. -- Prior; previous; foregoing.
• INDICATIVELY
  In an indicative manner; in a way to show or signify.
• OMINOUS
  Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous; -- formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread.
• THREATEN
  1. To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeable; to warn. Let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.
• PREFATORY
  Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a preface; introductory to a book, essay, or discourse; as, prefatory remarks. That prefatory addition to the Creed. Dryden.
• INITIATORY
  1. Suitable for an introduction or beginning; introductory; prefatory; as, an initiatory step. Bp. Hall. 2. Tending or serving to initiate; introducing by instruction, or by the use and application of symbols or ceremonies; elementary; rudimentary.
• ORACULAR
  1. Of or pertaining to an oracle; uttering oracles; forecasting the future; as, an oracular tongue. 2. Resembling an oracle in some way, as in solemnity, wisdom, authority, obscurity, ambiguity, dogmatism. They have something venerable and oracular
• SIBYLLINE
  Pertaining to the sibyls; uttered, written, or composed by sibyls; like the productions of sibyls. Sibylline books. (Rom. Antiq.) Books or documents of prophecies in verse concerning the fate of the Roman empire, said to have been purchased by
• PROPHETICALITY
  Propheticalness.
• PRIORITY
  1. The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application. 2. Precedence; superior rank. Shak. Priority of debts, a superior claim to payment, or a claim to payment before others.
• PRIORATE
  The dignity, office, or government, of a prior. T. Warton.
• INTRODUCTORY
  Serving to introduce something else; leading to the main subject or business; preliminary; prefatory; as, introductory proceedings; an introductory discourse.
• PRIORESS
  A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess.
• ANTECEDENTLY
  Previously; before in time; at a time preceding; as, antecedently to conversion. Barrow.
• PREMONITORY
  Giving previous warning or notice; as, premonitory symptoms of disease. -- Pre*mon"i*to*ri*ly, adv.
• THREATENER
  One who threatens. Shak.
• PROPHETICALNESS
  The quality or state of being prophetical; power or capacity to foretell.
• MULTINOMINAL; MULTINOMINOUS
  Having many names or terms.
• SUBPRIOR
  The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.
• BINOMINOUS
  Binominal.
• ABDOMINOUS
  Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied. Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. Cowper.
• APRIORISM
  An a priori principle.