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.
threshold noun (ENTRANCE). âº [C] the âpart of a âfloor at the âentrance to a âbuilding or âroom: Itâs âtraditional for a man to âcarry his âbride over the threshold. (Definition of threshold from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary Â© Cambridge University Press). See all translations.