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.
obturator â(plural obturators) ( 1 surgery) An object used to obstruct a hole, such as a fissure of the palate. ( 2 engineering) Valve closure member (disk, gate, plug, etc.). ( 3 ordnance) Any device for preventing the escape of gas through the breech mechanism of a breech-loading gun; a gas check. ( photography) A camera shutter.