portentive

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. portentous; prophetic; acting as a presage.
    — The raven, from a neighbouring oak, responded the portentive croak.
  2. Indicating that something is likely to happen in the future.
    — 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.

词形变化

more portentive comparative most portentive superlative

词源

From portent + -ive.
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