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 - PROPHETICALITY
Propheticalness. - 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 - 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.