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portending
adjective as in impending
adjective as in minatory
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- 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
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adjective as in oracular
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- 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
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adjective as in prognosticative
adjective as in threatening
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Example Sentences
But all the same he was a marvelously keen and strung and efficient instrument to meet the portending issue.
My star had shone but dimly the night before, portending danger; yet I knew not from what quarter to expect it.
The storm-portending evening glow tinges the fleecy clouds flame color, causing the rest of the sky to appear topaz green.
What the further intention is, time will show; but doubtless portending some revolution.
Dark clouds travel over the sky, portending rain: a rare phenomenon in these regions.
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On this page you'll find 205 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to portending, such as: approaching, brewing, imminent, looming, coming, and gathering.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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