PORTENT Synonyms

• a foreboding about what is about to happen

• a sign of something about to happen

• indicate, as with a sign or an omen

• a sign of something about to happen

• a statement made about the future

• knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source)

• an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come

• an early warning about a future event

• something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone

• foreshadow or presage

• the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)

• a statement made about the future

• a feeling of evil to come

• an early warning about a future event

• knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source)

• a prediction uttered under divine inspiration

• a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened)

• a public display of a message

• any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message

• structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted

• (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided

• (medicine) any objective evidence of the presence of a disorder or disease

• having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges)

• an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come

• a gesture that is part of a sign language

• a fundamental linguistic unit linking a signifier to that which is signified

• a character indicating a relation between quantities

• used of the language of the deaf

• mark with one's signature; write one's name (on)

• approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation

• be engaged by a written agreement

• engage by written agreement

• communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs

• place signs, as along a road

• communicate in sign language

• make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate

• any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message

• any incitement to action

• an electric quantity (voltage or current or field strength) whose modulation represents coded information about the source from which it comes

• notably out of the ordinary

• communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs

• be a signal for or a symptom of

• a message informing of danger

• cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness)

• notification of something, usually in advance

• serving to warn

• an unusually gifted or intelligent (young) person; someone whose talents excite wonder and admiration

• a sign of something about to happen

• an impressive or wonderful example of a particular quality

• a sign of something about to happen

• of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions