premonitory
Signaling future events
Premonitory means giving advance warning of something to come, especially something unpleasant.
A premonitory dream hints at future events.
Premonitory symptoms signal an approaching illness or episode: She recognized the premonitory aura before her migraines.
The word carries a sense of foreboding—what's coming is rarely good news.
Sign of future calamity
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
- signMark conveying information
- omenProphetic indicator
- auguryOmen interpretation practice
presage · foreshadowing · herald · indicator · auspice · foretoken · death-knell · raven
Intense anticipatory fear
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
- uneaseMild persistent worry
- trepidationFearful uncertainty
- anxietyPersistent apprehensive distress
disquiet · misgiving · foreboding · ominous · eerie · unsettling · sinister · dark
Foretelling of future events
- visionAbility to see
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
- clairvoyanceExtrasensory perception ability
precognition · foresight · prescience · prognostication · soothsaying · fortune-telling · seer · sibyl
Unproven inner sense
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
- intuitionInstinctive immediate understanding
- inklingSlight, uncertain awareness
- feelingSensed inner state
presentiment · forefeeling · sense · impression · awareness · flash · niggling · nagging
portent
Sign of future calamity
augury · presage · foreshadowing · herald · indicator · auspice · foretoken · death-knell · raven
dread
Intense anticipatory fear
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
- uneaseMild persistent worry
- trepidationFearful uncertainty
anxiety · disquiet · misgiving · foreboding · ominous · eerie · unsettling · sinister · dark · brooding
prophecy
Foretelling of future events
- visionAbility to see
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
clairvoyance · precognition · foresight · prescience · prognostication · soothsaying · fortune-telling · seer · sibyl · cassandra
hunch
Unproven inner sense
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
- intuitionInstinctive immediate understanding
- inklingSlight, uncertain awareness
feeling · presentiment · forefeeling · sense · impression · awareness · flash · niggling · nagging · uncanny
warning
Alert about danger
alarm · heads-up · advisory · notification · early-warning · tip-off · canary · sentinel · watchword · tocsin
premonitoryretrospective
Reviewing what came before
backward-looking · postmortem · after-the-fact · ex post facto · memorial
- premonitory dreamsSleep visions foretelling events
monitor, admonish, premonition, monitoring, forewarn, admonition, forewarning, monitory