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.
Meaning: Any structure that makes progress difficult. Classified under: Nouns denoting man-made objects. Synonyms: impedimenta; obstruction; impediment; obstructer; obstructor. Hypernyms (impediment is a kind of...): construction; structure (a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts)