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.
portend (third-person singular simple present portends, present participle portending, simple past and past participle portended) ( 1 transitive) To serve as a warning or omen. ( 2 transitive) To signify; to denote.