premonitory

1. 1.

   warning of future misfortune

   Synonymsprecursory

   Similarprophetic

Questions about premonitory

What does premonitory mean?

premonitory means "warning of future misfortune".

How many syllables are in premonitory?

premonitory has 5 syllables: pre-mon-i-to-ry. The stress falls on "mon". In IPA it is /pɹəˈmʌnətɚi/.

What is another word for premonitory?

Close synonyms include precursory. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is premonitory a common word?

premonitory is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.