presentimental

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adjective

Of the nature of a presentiment; foreboding.

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Meanings

adjectivepresentimental (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf the nature of a presentiment; foreboding.

    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"
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    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

Origin

From presentiment + -al.

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Rhymes & wordplay

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APA

presentimental. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/presentimental

MLA

“presentimental.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/presentimental. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “presentimental,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/presentimental.

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