Word Meanings - PRESAGIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Foreboding; ominous.
Related words: (words related to PRESAGIOUS)
- FOREBODINGLY
In a foreboding manner. - OMINOUS
Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous; -- formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread. - FOREBODEMENT
The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded. - FOREBODER
One who forebodes. - FOREBODING
Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune. - FOREBODE
1. To foretell. 2. To be prescient of ; to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly. His heart forebodes a mystery. Tennyson. Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, - MULTINOMINAL; MULTINOMINOUS
Having many names or terms. - BINOMINOUS
Binominal. - ABDOMINOUS
Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied. Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. Cowper.