Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

portentive

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: por-ten-tive
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

portentous; prophetic; acting as a presage.

adj

Indicating that something is likely to happen in the future.

Example Sentences

"The raven, from a neighbouring oak, responded the portentive croak."
"Astrological calculations of nativities, lucky and unlucky days and seasons, are by some regarded, and even moles on the surface of the skin are thought to be portentive of good or bad fortune."
"The growing use of cement during the city's florrescence was innovative and extraordinarily portentive of modern engineering skills."
"The potential portentive forms, consisting of the potential stem plus the post-clitic -noko, occur with a further post-cliticised contracted form of ylvk 'having said', the perfect participle of 'say', in a clause of negative purpose."

Etymology

From portent + -ive.

Word Breakdown

Root: *per-
Suffix: portent

Inflected Forms

more portentive (comparative) most portentive (superlative)

Questions

What does portentive mean?: portentous; prophetic; acting as a presage.
Where does portentive come from?: From portent + -ive.

How to pronounce portentive

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