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.
A person bores a hole in a cabinet door. The definition of a bore is something or someone dull and uninteresting. An example of bore is a person who only ever wants to talk about his pet iguana and nothing else. To bore is defined as to drill holes in something or make a hole in something.