PORTENDING Synonyms

• a statement made about the future

• the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand

• indistinctly prophetic

• any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message

• To foretell events; to exhibit signs of future events.

• To anticipate, to foretell, or to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable issue.

• an indirect suggestion

• a slight indication

• a slight but appreciable amount

• a just detectable amount

• an indication of potential opportunity

• drop a hint; intimate by a hint

• be a signal for or a symptom of

• indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively

• to state or express briefly

• give evidence of

• suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine

• make a prediction about; tell in advance

• indicate, as with a sign or an omen

• a foreboding about what is about to happen

• a sign of something about to happen

• indicate, as with a sign or an omen

• predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration

• deliver a sermon

• make a proposal, declare a plan for something

• drop a hint; intimate by a hint

• imply as a possibility

• call to mind

• indicate, as with a sign or an omen

• a foreboding about what is about to happen

• a sign of something about to happen

• indicate, as with a sign or an omen

• (ancient Rome) a religious official who interpreted omens to guide public policy

• indicate, as with a sign or an omen

• predict from an omen

• indicate, as with a sign or an omen

• commence in a manner calculated to bring good luck

• be a signal for or a symptom of

• indicate, as with a sign or an omen

• indicate, as with a sign or an omen

• a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop

• predict in advance

• judge to be probable

• indicate, as with a sign or an omen

• foreshadow or presage

• make a prediction about; tell in advance

• indicate, as with a sign or an omen

• a sign of something about to happen

• indicate, as with a sign or an omen