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PREMONITORY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does premonitory mean?
• PREMONITORY (adjective)
The adjective PREMONITORY has 1 sense:
1. warning of future misfortune
Familiarity information: PREMONITORY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Warning of future misfortune
Synonyms:
precursory; premonitory
Similar:
prophetic; prophetical (foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention)
Context examples
At all hours of the day and night, I would be taken with the premonitory shudder; above all, if I slept, or even dozed for a moment in my chair, it was always as Hyde that I awakened.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I was undressing in my own room, when, with a premonitory tap at the door, he entered, and at once began to speak:—To-morrow I want you to bring me, before night, a set of post-mortem knives.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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