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presentimental

presentimental adjective: of the nature of a presentiment; foreboding.

Adjective

presentimental (not comparable)

  1. Of the nature of a presentiment; foreboding.
    • Amelia heard the claret bell ringing as she sat nervously upstairs. She thought, somehow, it was a mysterious and presentimental bell. Of the presentiments which some people are always having, some surely must come right.1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 13, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC
    • O! the affecting beauty of the death of Cawdor, and the presentimental speech of the king: […]1849 (posth.) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes and Lectures on Shakespeare and some of the Old Dramatists, "Notes on Macbeth"

Origin of presentimental

From presentiment + -al.

Words that rhyme with presentimental

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Questions about presentimental

What does presentimental mean?
Presentimental means of the nature of a presentiment; foreboding.
What part of speech is presentimental?
Presentimental is an adjective.

Words near presentimental in the dictionary

  1. presentience
  2. presentiences
  3. presentient
  4. presentification
  5. presentiment
  6. presentimental
  7. presentiments
  8. presenting
  9. presenting problem
  10. presenting problems
  11. presention

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