Premonitory

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Premonitory \Pre*mon"i*to*ry\, a. [L. praemonitorius.]
     Giving previous warning or notice; as, premonitory symptoms
     of disease. -- {Pre*mon"i*to*ri*ly}, adv.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  premonitory
       adj : warning of future misfortune [syn: {precursory}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  29 Moby Thesaurus words for "premonitory":
     augural, foreboding, forerunning, foreshadowing, foreshowing,
     foretokening, forewarning, heavy with meaning, indicative,
     intuitive, meaningful, monitory, ominous, portentous, precautional,
     precautionary, precursive, precursory, predictive, prefigurative,
     preindicative, presageful, presaging, prodromal, prodromic,
     prognostic, prognosticative, significant, warning