Word Meanings - PORTENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That which portends, or foretoken; esp., that which portends evil; a sign of coming calamity; an omen; a sign. Shak. My loss by dire portents the god foretold. Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PORTENT)

• Marvel
• Wonder
• prodigy
• admiration
• portent
• miracle
• astonishment
• amazement
• phenomenon
• Monster
• Prodigy
• marvel
• deformity
• abnormity
• fright
• colossus
• monstrosity
• leviathan
• fiend
• brute
• Amazement
• surprise
• sign

Related words: (words related to PORTENT)

• BRUTENESS
  1. Brutality. Spenser. 2. Insensibility. "The bruteness of nature." Emerson.
• WONDERSTRUCK
  Struck with wonder, admiration, or surprise. Dryden.
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• WONDER
  Etym: 1. To be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel. I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals. Swift. We cease to wonder at what we understand. Johnson.
• LEVIATHAN
  1. An aquatic animal, described in the book of Job, ch. xli., and mentioned on other passages of Scripture. Note: It is not certainly known what animal is intended, whether the crocodile, the whale, or some sort of serpent. 2. The whale, or a great
• WONDERFUL
  Adapted to excite wonder or admiration; surprising; strange; astonishing. Syn. -- Marvelous; amazing. See Marvelous. -- Won"der*ful*ly, adv. -- Won"der*ful*ness, n.
• MARVELOUS
  1. Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful. This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. Ps. cxiii. 23. 2. Partaking of the character of miracle, or superna The marvelous fable includes whatever is supernatural, and especially
• FRIGHT
  forhta, OHG. forhta, forahta, G. furcht, Dan. frygt, Sw. fruktan, 1. A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm. 2. Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing
• FRIGHTFULNESS
  The quality of being frightful.
• FRIGHTFULLY
  In a frightful manner; to a frightful dagree.
• FRIGHTEN
  To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify. More frightened than hurt. Old Proverb. (more info) Etym:
• SURPRISE
  1. The act of coming upon, or taking, unawares; the act of seizing unexpectedly; surprisal; as, the fort was taken by surprise. 2. The state of being surprised, or taken unawares, by some act or event which could not reasonably be foreseen; emotion
• WONDERLAND
  A land full of wonders, or marvels. M. Arnold.
• FIENDLIKE
  Fiendish; diabolical. Longfellow.
• WONDERWORK
  A wonderful work or act; a prodigy; a miracle. Such as in strange land He found in wonderworks of God and Nature's hand. Byron.
• DEFORMITY
  deformis: cf. OF. deformeté, deformité, F. difformité. See Deform, v. 1. The state of being deformed; want of proper form or symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; ugliness. To make an
• WONDERLY
  Wonderfully; wondrously. Chaucer.
• BRUTE
  1. An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast. Brutes may be considered as either aëral, terrestrial, aquatic, or amphibious. Locke. 2. A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse
• WONDERINGLY
  In a wondering manner.
• MIRACLE
  1. A wonder or wonderful thing. That miracle and queen of genus. Shak. 2. Specifically: An event or effect contrary to the established constitution and course of things, or a deviation from the known laws of nature; a supernatural event, or one
• AFFRIGHTER
  One who frightens.
• MARVEL
  wonderful things, pl., fr. mirabilis wonderful, fr. mirari to wonder 1. That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle. I will do marvels such as have not been done. Ex. xxxiv. 10. Nature's sweet marvel undefiled. Emerson. 2. Wonder. "Use lessens
• AFFRIGHTFUL
  Terrifying; frightful. -- Af*fright"ful*ly, adv. Bugbears or affrightful apparitions. Cudworth.
• IMBRUTE
  To degrade to the state of a brute; to make brutal. And mixed with bestial slime, This essence to incarnate and imbrute. Milton. (more info) Etym:
• SEA MONSTER
  Any large sea animal.
• AFFRIGHTEDLY
  With fright. Drayton.