portends
Warns of ahead
Portends means to serve as a sign or warning of something to come, usually something momentous or ominous: Dark clouds portend a storm.
The word carries a sense of fate or inevitability—what portends isn't just predicted but foreshadowed.
The economic indicators portend trouble ahead.
Indicate future events
- presageIndicate beforehand
- augurOne who reads omens
- heraldOfficial news announcer
- indicateSignal or point to
foretell · betoken · prefigure · foretoken · signify · warn · suggest · announce
Authoritative wisdom source
- seerOne who envisions futures
- prophecyForetelling of future events
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
- soothsayerOne who predicts futures
clairvoyant · visionary · sibyl · augury · foretell · revelation · omen · harbinger
Fearful anticipation of harm
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
- threateningExpressing intent to harm
- direExtremely serious or urgent
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
dread · grim · inauspicious · menacing · dark · fearful · premonitory · unsettling
foreshadow
Indicate future events
indicate · foretell · betoken · prefigure · foretoken · signify · warn · suggest · announce · precursor
oracle
Authoritative wisdom source
- seerOne who envisions futures
- prophecyForetelling of future events
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
soothsayer · clairvoyant · visionary · sibyl · augury · foretell · revelation · omen · harbinger · precognition
foreboding
Fearful anticipation of harm
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
- threateningExpressing intent to harm
- direExtremely serious or urgent
doom · dread · grim · inauspicious · menacing · dark · fearful · premonitory · unsettling · ill-omened
portendsconfirms
Establishes as fact
proves · establishes · verifies · demonstrates · certifies
portendsrecalls
Remembers or withdraws products
recounts · commemorates · memorializes · reflects · documents
portendspromises
Sworn statements of intent
heralds · reassures · guarantees · encourages · allays
portend, portent, portentous, portents, portending, portended