Portentive
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Portentive is an adjective meaning portentous; prophetic; acting as a presage.
Meaning
portentous; prophetic; acting as a presage.
More Meanings
- (grammar) Indicating that something is likely to happen in the future.
Example Sentences
The raven, from a neighbouring oak, responded the portentive croak.
The growing use of cement during the city's florrescence was innovative and extraordinarily portentive of modern engineering skills.
Astrological calculations of nativities, lucky and unlucky days and seasons, are by some regarded, and even moles on the surface of the skin are thought to be portentive of good or bad fortune.
The potential portentive forms, consisting of the potential stem plus the post-clitic -noko, occur with a further post-cliticised contracted form of ylvk 'having said', the perfect participle of 'say', in a clause of negative purpose.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include presageful, boding, presagious, prevoyant, previsionary, presentimental.
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