English edit

Etymology edit

portent +‎ -ive

Adjective edit

portentive (comparative more portentive, superlative most portentive)

  1. portentous; presaging or foreshadowing

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for portentive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)