premonitory

premonitory

English

Adjective

premonitory (not comparable)

1. Serving as a warning.
   • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:

     […] the captain was plainly too much for the branch, which was drooping toward the water, and emitting sounds premonitory of a smash.

Translations

serving as warning

Bulgarian: предупредителен (bg) (predupreditelen) Dutch: waarschuwend (nl) Finnish: varoittava (fi) French: prémonitoire (fr)

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