premonitory

Meanings

• having or showing a present foreboding or warning; portending

  - "The dark clouds looming on the horizon were a premonitory sign of the approaching storm."
  - "When the doctor told her that she had a rare and aggressive form of cancer, she couldn't help but feel a premonitory sense of dread and despair."

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Rhymes

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monitory , prophetic , premonitionary , prescient

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Homophones

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1. premonition, premonitionary, premonitionist
   

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Variants

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premonitorily , premonitory

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Forms

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premonitory (adjective) - warning beforehand, portending, foreboding., premonition (noun) - a warning given beforehand, a presentiment, a foreboding., premonitory sign (noun) - a warning sign given beforehand, a portent, a foreboding.

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Etymology

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From Latin prēmonitōrius, prēmonitus - warned beforehand, from prēmonere - to warn beforehand.

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Culture

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In literature, premonitory signs and symbols are often used to convey a sense of impending danger or doom. For example, in Edgar Allan Poe's short story 'The Tell-Tale Heart', the old man's eye is described as a 'vulture's eye' that haunts and torments the narrator. Similarly, in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel 'Crime and Punishment', the protagonist Raskolnikov is haunted and tormented by a 'moral conscience' that forces him to confront and atone for his crimes.

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