characterized by or pertaining to emotion: the emotive and rational capacities of humankind. productive of or directed toward the emotions: Artistic distortion is often an emotive use of form.
portent. A phenomenon that serves as a sign or warning of some future good or evil: augury, forerunner, foretoken, omen, prefigurement, presage, prognostic, prognostication, sign. Idiom: writing on the wall.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English Â© 2016. ruâ¢diâ¢ment (roÌoÌâ²dÉ mÉnt), n. Usually,rudiments. 1  the elements or first principles of a subject:the rudiments of grammar.  a mere beginning, first slight appearance, or undeveloped or imperfect form of something:the rudiments of a plan.