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portending
adjective as in impending
adjective as in minatory
Weak matches
- aggressive
- alarming
- apocalyptic
- at hand
- baleful
- baneful
- black
- bullying
- cautionary
- close
- comminatory
- dangerous
- dire
- fateful
- forthcoming
- grim
- ill-boding
- imminent
- impendent
- impending
- inauspicious
- intimidatory
- looming
- loury
- lowering
- lowery
- minacious
- near
- overhanging
- portentous
- scowling
- sinister
- terrorizing
- ugly
- unlucky
- unpropitious
- unsafe
- upcoming
- warning
adjective as in monitory
Weak matches
adjective as in oracular
Weak matches
- ambiguous
- anticipating
- apocalyptic
- arcane
- auguring
- auspicious
- authoritative
- cabalistic
- clairvoyant
- cryptic
- Delphian
- discovering
- divining
- divulging
- dogmatic
- fatidic
- foreboding
- forecasting
- foretelling
- imperious
- interpretive
- mantic
- mysterious
- mystical
- obscure
- occult
- ominous
- peremptory
- portentous
- positive
- predicting
- presaging
- prescient
- proclaiming
- prognosticating
- prophesying
- sage
- secret
- sibylline
- significant
- soothsaying
- vague
- vatic
- venerable
- wise
adjective as in predictive
adjective as in prognostic
Strong matches
adjective as in prognosticative
adjective as in threatening
Strongest matches
Example Sentences
Previous research has found that gelatinous zooplankton like velella and their fellow jellyfish thrive in warmer waters, portending an era some scientists have referred to as the “rise of slime.”
Looking back, the surprising darkness and dampening of Penn State’s win over Utah was a portending moment.
Wholesale food inflation has started to decline, portending possible relief for consumers in coming months.
Israel formally declared war on Sunday, portending greater fighting ahead, and a possible ground assault into Gaza - a move that in the past has brought intensified casualties.
The Colts will be slight favorites Sunday, perhaps portending another close finish.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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