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.
deponent (plural deponents) ( 1 law) A witness; especially one who gives information under oath, in a deposition concerning facts known to him or her. ( 2 grammar) A deponent verb.