Definition for Portent:

• That which portends, or foretoken; esp., that which portends evil; a sign of coming calamity; an omen; a sign.

Synonyms for Portent:

• n.

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  • alarm bells,
  • red alert,
  • alert,
  • early warning,
  • do's and don'ts,
  • advisory,
  • code red,
  • notice.
  •
  • foresight,
  • warn.
  •augury (noun)
  • prophecy,
  • promise,
  • token,
  • forewarning,
  • auspice.
  •cautionary tale (noun)
  • word to the wise,
  • message,
  • caveat,
  • red flag,
  • sign of things to come,
  • admonition,
  • moral,
  • hint.
  •consequence (noun)
  • reputation,
  • pith,
  • note,
  • account,
  • need,
  • honor,
  • interest,
  • renown,
  • exigency,
  • repute,
  • weight,
  • momentousness,
  • moment,
  • value,
  • magnitude,
  • concern.
  •foreboding (noun)
  • dread,
  • chill,
  • fear,
  • apprehension,
  • anxiety.
  •forerunner (noun)
  • predecessor,
  • antecedent,
  • model,
  • advertisement,
  • pattern,
  • announcement,
  • mark,
  • prototype,
  • foreshadow.
  •forewarning (noun)
  • fore-warning,
  • fore warnings,
  • fore warning,
  • fore-warnings.
  •harbinger (noun)
  • messenger,
  • signal.
  •hoo-hah (noun)
  • hoo-hah.
  •hunch (noun)
  • qualm,
  • inkling,
  • notion,
  • intuition,
  • preconceived notion,
  • precognition,
  • foreknowledge,
  • expectation,
  • suspicion,
  • prescience,
  • impression,
  • misgiving,
  • thought,
  • instinct,
  • anticipation,
  • glimmer,
  • feeling in one's bones,
  • forecast.
  •phenomenon (noun)
  • rarae aves.
  •portent (noun)
  • Bodement,
  • handwriting on the wall,
  • caution,
  • funny feeling,
  • prognostic,
  • clue,
  • prognostication,
  • boding,
  • presentiment,
  • harbinger.
  •prediction (noun)
  • speculation,
  • envisioning,
  • revelation.
  •premonition (noun)
  • pre monitions,
  • pre monition,
  • pre-monitions,
  • winds change,
  • worriments,
  • pre-monition.
  •presage (noun)
  • pre sages,
  • pre sage,
  • pre-sages,
  • pre-sage.
  •prodigy (noun)
  • one in a million,
  • wizards,
  • wunderkind,
  • child genius,
  • wonder child,
  • naturals,
  • one million.
  •sensation (noun)
  • bombshell,
  • bombshells.
  •sign of things to come (noun)
  • sign things to come,
  • pre indications,
  • sign of things come,
  • danger signs,
  • sign things come,
  • pre indication,
  • preindications,
  • warning signs,
  • pre-indications.
  •straw in the wind (noun)
  • straw the wind,
  • straw wind,
  • straw-wind,
  • sign of the time,
  • sign time,
  • sign times,
  • straw in wind,
  • sign of times,
  • sign the times,
  • sign of time,
  • sign the time,
  • slight hints.
  •stunner (noun)
  • eighth wonder the world,
  • eighth wonder of world,
  • the eighth wonder of world,
  • the eighth wonder world,
  • eighth wonder of the world,
  • eighth wonder world,
  • the eighth wonder the world.
  •surprise (noun)
  • curveball,
  • precipitousness,
  • eye-openers,
  • eye-opener,
  • suddenness,
  • eureka,
  • whammy,
  • epiphanies,
  • thunderbolts,
  • Astoundment,
  • thunderbolt.
  •threat (noun)
  • intimidation,
  • fulmination,
  • impendence.
  •warning (noun)
  • tipoff,
  • fores,
  • Soss,
  • in formation,
  • watch-it,
  • tip off,
  • heads up,
  • Maydays.
  •wonder (noun)
  • cynosure.
  •writing on the wall (noun)
  • fair warnings,
  • fore-taste,
  • writing the wall,
  • fore taste,
  • writing wall,
  • fore tastes,
  • writing on wall,
  • writing-wall,
  • fore-tastes.

• Other synonyms:

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  • Prefigurement.
  •augury
  • divination.

Paraphrases for Portent:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    omen.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    sign.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    harbinger.