premonitory
adjUS /pɹəˈmɑnɪˌtɔɹi/ · UK /pɹɪˈmɒnɪtəɹi/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin praemonitōrius.
1
Serving as a warning or premonition.
- […] the captain was plainly too much for the branch, which was drooping toward the water, and emitting sounds premonitory of a smash.1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
- Many conditions formerly thought to be purely functional are now known as premonitory evidences of organic disease, and the prognosis must be guarded accordingly.1928 December 15, Frank J. Hirschboeck, “Treatment of Functional Heart Disease”, in The Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 91, number 24, →DOI, page 1856:
- Derived terms
- premonitorily, premonitory urge