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premonition Definition

premo·ni·tion (prem′ə nis̸h′ən, prē′mə-)

noun

  1. a warning in advance; a forewarning
  2. a feeling that something, esp. something bad, will happen; foreboding; presentiment

Etymology: MFr premonicion < LL(Ec) praemonitio < L praemonere < prae-, before + monere, to warn: see pre- & monitor

premonition Related Forms

pre·mon′i·to′ry (prē män′i tôr′ē) adjective

premonition Synonyms

premonition

n.

omen, portent, forewarning; see sign 1, warning.

premonition Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • disaster: The fourteen year old Esther wakes in the early hours of the morning with a premonition of disaster.
  • death: Neither wild nor domestic animals appear to have any premonition of death.
  • future: Anyway, if they really had been premonitions of the future I'd have won the lottery long before now!
  • doom: She must now try to make sense of what has happened to her, while dealing with premonitions of doom for him.
  • danger: One of two English sisters who form a psychic stage act receives a premonition of great danger associated with the mountain.
  • evil: I had slept heavily, and wakened with a premonition of some evil to befall.

Preposition: that

  • something: I had a premonition that something was about to go horribly wrong; a common feeling in IT.
  • plane: When they board the plane Alex ( Devon Sawa ) falls asleep and has a premonition that the plane will explode.

Converse of object

  • have: She might, however, " sense " the disaster, have a premonition.
  • get: Some 30 minutes in we get a premonition of the terrible atrocity in store.

Adjective modifier

  • early: Muhammad's earlier premonitions of his deaths read more like the cosmic words of a mystic.
  • vivid: Twelve years later, his carefree life as a bareback rider is shattered by vivid premonitions.
  • strange: I had a strange premonition and asked Roger Harvey my pit manager to change to wet tires.
  • strong: I'm not saying I'm psychic, of course, but I sometimes do get these alarmingly strong premonitions of the future.
  • dark: The stage was now set for the ultimate test for Leeds United, and the Sunday papers flowed over with dark premonitions.