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.
Definition of tincture. 1  1 : a solution of a medicinal substance in an alcoholic solvent. 2  2a : a characteristic quality : castb : a slight admixture : trace a tincture of doubt. 3  3a : color, tintb archaic : a substance that colors, dyes, or stains. 4  4 : a heraldic metal, color, or fur. 5  5 obsolete : an active principle or extract.