premonitory

premonitory

adjective

Definition of PREMONITORY

serving as or offering a warning <a moderate tremor that some seismologists have interpreted as a premonitory sign of the catastrophic quake that is inevitable>

Synonyms admonishing, admonitory, cautioning, exemplary, monitory, premonitory, warning

Related Words didactic, moralistic, moralizing; advisory, counseling (or counselling); punishing, punitive