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premonitory
adjective[ usually before noun ]
formaluk /priˈmɒn.ɪ.tər.i/ us /ˌprɪˈmɑː.nə.tɔːr.i/
warning about something unpleasant before it happens:
premonitory signPremonitory signs of the coming revolution can be seen across the previous decades.
premonitory symptomThe patient died suddenly, without any premonitory symptoms, while working in his garden.
With hindsight, the title of her second novel seems premonitory.
She plays an illustrator of children's books who has premonitory dreams of children being kidnapped.
We are given a premonitory hint of the events that are about to take place.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Predicting things and intuition
augur
augury
bellwether
betcha
bode
herald
horizon scanning
hunch
inkling
instinct
prefigure
premonition
presage
prescience
prescient
telepathy
there's no knowing/telling/sayingidiom
unforeseeable
unintuitively
unreasoning
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