premonitory.

Giving a warning or indication of a future event, especially something unwelcome.

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Words that belong together

• a premonitory sign
• premonitory symptoms
• a premonitory dream

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The silence struck her as premonitory, though she could not say what it foretold.

A premonitory headache had preceded each earlier attack.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Usually non-gradable; use more clearly premonitory where comparison is needed. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.