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.
The definition of bait is a person, place, or thing used to attract. 1  An example of bait is the worm used on the end of a pole to attract fish.  An example of bait is the poisonous trap used for killing ants in the house.