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writing on the wall
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ominous indication |
| Synonyms: | fair warning, fate, foretaste, hunch, omen, portent, sign of the times |
| Main Entry: | threat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | warning; danger |
| Synonyms: | blackmail, bluff, commination, fix, foreboding, foreshadowing, fulmination, hazard, impendence, intimidation, menace, omen, peril, portent, presage, risk, thunder, writing on the wall |
| Main Entry: | handwriting on the wall |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | impending misfortune |
| Synonyms: | forewarning, inevitability, portents and evils imminent, warning, writing on the wall |
| Main Entry: | forewarning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | threat |
| Synonyms: | feeling, foreboding, foreshadowing, omen, portent, premonition, prescience, presentiment, warning, writing on the wall |
| Main Entry: | prefigurement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | omen |
| Synonyms: | augury, auspice, bodement, boding, foreboding, forerunner, foretoken, harbinger, indication, portent, premonition, presage, prognostic, prognostication, prophecy, sign*, straw, warning, writing, writing on the wall |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prognostic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | omen |
| Synonyms: | augury, auspice, bodement, boding, foreboding, forerunner, foretoken, harbinger, indication, portent, prefigurement, premonition, presage, prognostication, prophecy, sign*, straw, warning, writing, writing on the wall |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prognostication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | omen |
| Synonyms: | augury, auspice, bodement, boding, foreboding, forerunner, foretoken, harbinger, indication, portent, prefigurement, premonition, presage, prognostic, prophecy, sign*, straw, warning, writing, writing on the wall |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Concept: | Omen. |
| Category: | 2. To the Future |
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-nouns
omen, portent, presage, prognostic, augury, auspice; sign (indication); harbinger (precursor); yule candle., bird of ill omen; signs of the times; gathering clouds; warning., prefigurement.
-adjectives
ill-boding.
-phrases
auspicium melioris aevi.
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| Concept: | Threat. |
| Category: | 2. Diffusive Sympathetic Affections |
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-nouns
threat, menace; defiance; abuse, minacity, intimidation; denunciation; fulmination; commination (curse); gathering clouds (warning).
-verbs
threat, threaten; menace; snarl, growl, gnarl, mutter, bark, bully., defy; intimidate; keep in terrorem, hold up in terrorem, hold out in terrorem; shake the fist at, double the fist at, clinch the fist at; thunder, talk big, fulminate, use big words, bluster, look daggers.
-adjectives
threatening, menacing; minatory, minacious; comminatory, abusive; in terrorem; ominous (predicting) ; defiant; under the ban.
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