Word Meanings - PORTEND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

to impend, from an old preposition used in comp. + tendere to 1. To indicate as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs. Bacon. Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. Macaulay. 2. To stretch

Additional info about word: PORTEND

to impend, from an old preposition used in comp. + tendere to 1. To indicate as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs. Bacon. Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. Macaulay. 2. To stretch out before. "Doomed to feel the great Idomeneus' portended steel." Pope. Syn. -- To foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; augur; presage; foreshadow; threaten.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PORTEND)

• Betoken
• Teach
• indicate
• proclaim
• presage
• augur
• portend
• foreshow
• signify
• forebode
• evidence
• declare
• manifest
• involve
• imply
• Bode
• Foretell
• betoken
• foreshadow
• predict
• prophesy
• promise
• herald
• announce
• prognosticate
• Predict
• preindicate
• forewarn
• Prognosticate
• foretoken
• Signify
• Portend
• purport
• mean
• represent
• communicate
• denote
• utter

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PORTEND)

• Recal
• suppress
• repress
• hush
• stifle
• check
• swallow

Related words: (words related to PORTEND)

• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• BETOKEN
  1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen
• IMPLY
  1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
• TEACHER
  1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. 2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination.
• STIFLED
  Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
• TEACHABLENESS
  Willingness to be taught.
• HERALD
  An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character. 2. In the Middle Ages, the officer
• PURPORTLESS
  Without purport or meaning.
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• DENOTEMENT
  Sign; indication. Note: A word found in some editions of Shakespeare.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• UTTERLY
  In an utter manner; to the full extent; fully; totally; as, utterly ruined; it is utterly vain.
• UTTERNESS
  The quality or state of being utter, or extreme; extremity; utmost; uttermost.
• CHECKREIN
  1. A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein. 2. A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.
• REPRESSIBLE
  Capable of being repressed.
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• SWALLOW
  Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidæ, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. Note:
• INEVIDENCE
  Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow.
• UNUTTERABLE
  Not utterable; incapable of being spoken or voiced; inexpressible; ineffable; unspeakable; as, unutterable anguish. Sighed and looked unutterable things. Thomson. -- Un*ut"ter*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*ut"ter*a*bly, adv.
• COMPROMISE
  promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter, fr. compromittere to 1. A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators. Burrill. 2. A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both
• MUTTERER
  One who mutters.
• UNPROMISE
  To revoke or annul, as a promise. Chapman.
• SCHOOL-TEACHER
  One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n.
• GUTTER
  1. A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough. 2. A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water. Gutters running with ale. Macaulay. 3. Any narrow channel or groove;
• INAUGURATE
  Invested with office; inaugurated. Drayton. (more info) omens from the flight of birds (before entering upon any important undertaking); hence, to consecrate, inaugurate, or install, with such
• BUTTER-SCOTCH
  A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. Dickens.
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.