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portent 音标拼音: [p'ɔrtɛnt] n. 前兆,预示,异常之物 前兆,预示,异常之物 portent n 1: a sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle" [synonym: {omen}, {portent}, {presage}, {prognostic}, {prognostication}, {prodigy}] Portent \Por*tent"\ (?; 277), n. [L. portentum. See {Portend}.] That which portends, or foretoken; esp., that which portends evil; a sign of coming calamity; an omen; a sign. --Shak. [1913 Webster] My loss by dire portents the god foretold. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 60 Moby Thesaurus words for "portent":
adumbration, advance notice, augury, auspice, balefulness, banefulness, betokening, betokenment, bodefulness, boding, direness, doomfulness, fatality, fatefulness, foreboding, foreshadow, foreshadowing, foreshowing, foretoken, foretokening, forewarning, indicant, indication, marvel, meaning, miracle, omen, ominousness, phenomenon, plenty of notice, portentousness, precautioning, prefiguration, preindication, premonition, premonitory shiver, premonitory sign, premonitory symptom, prenotice, prenotification, presage, presagefulness, presentiment, presignifying, prewarning, prodigy, prognostic, prognostication, promise, sensation, shadow, sign, significance, sinisterness, soothsay, stunner, suggestiveness, token, tokening, type
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