Portents [noun]

Definition of Portents:

indication, forewarning

Synonyms of Portents:

● Premonition

● Harbinger

● Omen

● Hunch

● Prognostic

● Foreboding

● Augury

● Sign

● Warning

● Prognostication

● Threat

● Caution

● Clue

● Presage

● Presentiment

● Funny feeling

● Handwriting on the wall

● Foretoken

● Foreshadowing

● Vibes

● Bodement

● Sinking feeling


Opposite/Antonyms of Portents:

● Doom


Sentence/Example of Portents:

It was the hush of portent, the hush of watchfulness, the hush of a threatening tension.

They had him, but it was like getting hold of an apparition, a wraith, a portent.

The silence without was only portent of the storm so soon to burst.

It was because he was a failure in literature that he became a portent in English history.

And, try as I might, I felt it to be a portent and a prophecy.

The Impending Crisis was a portent and an impulse of the coming catastrophe.

Detached, no portion of the ritual had meaning; its portent lay in the whole.

They didn't receive it, but by his theory the portent was only the stronger.

The sea has a greasy look and this heavy ground swell is a portent.

But for that portent, whatever it boded, she might have been not my wife but his.