All portent synonyms
porΒ·tent
P p noun portent
- herald β (formerly) a royal or official messenger, especially one representing a monarch in an ambassadorial capacity during wartime.
- worriment β the act or an instance of worrying; anxiety.
- mayday β the international radiotelephone distress signal, used by ships and aircraft.
- in-junction β Law. a judicial process or order requiring the person or persons to whom it is directed to do a particular act or to refrain from doing a particular act.
- omen β anything perceived or happening that is believed to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; portent.
- marvel β something that causes wonder, admiration, or astonishment; a wonderful thing; a wonder or prodigy: The new bridge is an engineering marvel.
- eureka β A cry of joy or satisfaction when one finds or discovers something.
- curveball β a ball pitched in a curving path so as to make it more difficult to hit
- wonder β to think or speculate curiously: to wonder about the origin of the solar system.
- foregoer β Alternative form of forgoer.
- omination β (obsolete) The act of ominating; presaging; omen.
- apprehensiveness β uneasy or fearful about something that might happen: apprehensive for the safety of the mountain climbers.
- miracle β an effect or extraordinary event in the physical world that surpasses all known human or natural powers and is ascribed to a supernatural cause.
- foretaste β a slight and partial experience, knowledge, or taste of something to come in the future; anticipation.
- indication β anything serving to indicate or point out, as a sign or token.
- foretoken β a sign of a future event; omen; forewarning.
- auspice β patronage or guidance (esp in the phrase under the auspices of)
- antecessor β a predecessor; someone who goes or has gone before
- weightiness β having considerable weight; heavy; ponderous: a weighty bundle.
- impendence β impending.
- auguration β The practice of augury.
- consequence β The consequences of something are the results or effects of it.
- astoundment β the state of being astounded
- hunch β to thrust out or up in a hump; arch: to hunch one's back.
- indicia β indicia (def 2).
- harbinger β a person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another; herald.
- abruptness β sudden or unexpected: an abrupt departure.
- foreboding β a prediction; portent.
- wunderkind β a wonder child or child prodigy.
- cynosure β a person or thing that attracts notice, esp because of its brilliance or beauty
- bodement β a foreboding or omen; presentiment.
- adumbration β to produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch.
- bombshell β A bombshell is a sudden piece of bad or unexpected news.
- bodements β a foreboding or omen; presentiment.
- forerunner β predecessor; ancestor; forebear; precursor.
- forewarning β to warn in advance.
- foreshadowing β to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
- warning β the act or utterance of one who warns or the existence, appearance, sound, etc., of a thing that warns.
- hoohah β an uproarious commotion.
- giveaway β an act or instance of giving something away.
- augury β An augury is a sign of what will happen in the future.
- phenomenon β a fact, occurrence, or circumstance observed or observable: to study the phenomena of nature.