portent

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At best it's ignorant, at worst it's a grave portent.

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a sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle"

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noun

a sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for portent.

noun

a sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle"

Example sentences

At best it's ignorant, at worst it's a grave portent.

Might TFA be a portent for the medium term?

I think that this is both a smart move on the part of Amazon, and also a portent of bad things to come in general.

Heh, as distasteful as ChatRoulette could be, I wonder if it's a portent of an actual positive change.

Having gone through portent writing and application processes myself, it really is like a game to see how much you can get away with.

I'm disappointed if like it's namesake it doesn't give vague, disturbing, portent information to the console.

If aspects of the present might be a little over the this-is-amazing hill, then that's not too much of a doomsday portent for the future as it's being made out to be.

"Work on unimportant problems" "Be more unlikeable" "How to cope with <insert worksplace horror>" "Why you should kill your parents" I wonder if these are portent to the developing zeitgeist.

Nature, for instance, in Jackson's movies is basically a very pretty backdrop; in Pan's Labyrinth, on the other hand, it's a presence, fantastic, a little threatening, full of portent and vast depths.