premonitory
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of premonitory
From the Late Latin word praemonitōrius, dating back to 1640–50. See pre-, monitory
Example Sentences
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As premonitory cinema goes, “Brazil” is perhaps matched only by Paddy Chayefsky’s 1976 “Network.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2025
Tempted as we may be to view this episode as premonitory, keep in mind these episodes were written and filmed many months ago.
From Salon • Nov. 11, 2024
Adnan’s fantasy of escaping this planet’s gravity reverberates now with extra premonitory vision, but it’s also a lament of the violence we inflict upon it and ourselves, and the sadness of abandoning something so beautiful.
From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2021
I wondered, too, about a similar narrative distortion that aims to make Dean’s sense of an oncoming pandemic seem premonitory.
From Washington Post • May 5, 2021
He crossed a yellow plain where the echo repeated one's thoughts and where anxiety brought on premonitory mirages.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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