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What is the adjective for portent?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb portend which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

portentous
  1. Of momentous or ominous significance.
  2. Ominously prophetic.
  3. Puffed up with vanity.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. significant, momentous, important, historic, consequential, serious, weighty, pivotal, vital, big, great, eventful, major, material, meaningful, monumental, substantial, crucial, heavy, notable, outstanding, far-reaching, critical, decisive, urgent, grave, earth-shattering, acute, considerable, fateful, high priority, high-priority, life-and-death, of great consequence, all-important, key, pressing, apocalyptic, determining, burning, much, earthshaking, earth-shaking, of moment, epoch-making, world-shattering, world-shaking, imperative, exigent, large … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “A deeply-hidden part of her mind informed her that this was a truly portentous event.”
      “The Ovide moralisé is a portentous performance of about seventy-two thousand lines, extant in some seventeen manuscripts.”
      “These specters emerged not as ghosts of the past but rather as spirits of the land carrying a portentous forewarning about imminent danger.”
portentive
  1. portentous; presaging or foreshadowing
portended
  1. simple past tense and past participle of portend
  2. Synonyms:
      3. augured, presaged, foretold, prophesied, foreshadowed, predicted, heralded, indicated, forecast, forecasted, foreboded, harbingered, signified, betokened, prognosticated, boded, bode, promised, foretokened, signalled, signaled, vaticinated, adumbrated, called, announced, forewarned, spelled, read, readen, foreshowed, foreshown, denoted, omened, bespoke, bespake, bespoken, threatened, premonished, pointed to, warned of, had a hunch, divined, soothsaid, anticipated, prefigured, auspicated, suggested, foresaw, foreseen, prevised … more
portending
  1. present participle of portend
  2. Synonyms:
      3. auguring, presaging, foretelling, prophesying, foreshadowing, predicting, heralding, indicating, forecasting, foreboding, harbingering, signifying, betokening, prognosticating, boding, promising, foretokening, signalling, signaling, vaticinating, adumbrating, calling, announcing, forewarning, spelling, reading, foreshowing, denoting, omening, bespeaking, threatening, premonishing, pointing to, warning of, having a hunch, prefiguring, suggesting, divining, forerunning, meaning, adding up to, foreseeing, implying, symbolizing, symbolising, forboding, marking, soothsaying, anticipating, auspicating … more
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