gathering clouds
noun
Roget 512:
omen,
portent,
presage,
prognostic,
augury,
auspice;
sign
etc.
(indication)
550;
harbinger
etc.
(precursor)
64;
yule candle†.
bird of ill omen;
signs of the times;
gathering clouds;
warning
etc.
668.
prefigurement
etc.
511.
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Roget 909:
threat,
menace;
defiance
etc.
715;
abuse,
minacity†,
intimidation;
denunciation;
fulmination;
commination
etc.
(curse)
908†;
gathering clouds
etc.
(warning)
668.
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Roget 668:
warning,
early warning,
caution,
caveat;
notice
etc.
(information)
527;
premonition,
premonishment†;
prediction
etc.
511;
contraindication,
lesson,
dehortation†;
admonition,
monition;
alarm
etc.
669.
handwriting on the wall,
mene mene tekel upharsin,
red flag,
yellow flag;
fog-signal,
foghorn;
siren;
monitor,
warning voice,
Cassandra†,
signs of the times,
Mother Cary's chickens†,
stormy petrel,
bird of ill omen,
gathering clouds,
clouds in the horizon,
death watch.
watchtower,
beacon,
signal post;
lighthouse
etc.
(indication of locality)
550.
sentinel,
sentry, ,
watch,
watchman;
watch and ward;
watchdog,
bandog†,
housedog†;
patrol,
patrolman,
vedette†,
picket,
bivouac,
scout,
spy,
spial†;
undercover agent,
mole,
plainclothesman;
advanced guard,
rear guard;
lookout.
cautiousness
etc.
864.
monitor,
guard camera,
radar,
AWACS,
spy satellite,
spy-in-the-sky,
U2 plane,
spy plane.
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Roget 735:
adversity,
evil
etc.
619;
failure
etc.
732;
bad luck,
ill luck,
evil luck,
adverse luck,
hard fortune,
hard hap,
hard luck,
hard lot;
frowns of fortune;
evil dispensation,
evil star,
evil genius†;
vicissitudes of life,
ups and downs of life,
broken fortunes;
hard case,
hard lines,
hard life;
sea of troubles;
peck of troubles;
hell upon earth;
slough of despond.
trouble,
hardship,
curse,
blight,
blast,
load,
pressure.
pressure of the times,
iron age,
evil day,
time out of joint;
hard times,
bad times,
sad times;
rainy day,
cloud,
dark cloud,
gathering clouds,
ill wind;
visitation,
infliction;
affliction
etc.
(painfulness)
830;
bitter pill;
care,
trial;
the sport of fortune.
mishap,
mischance,
misadventure,
misfortune;
disaster,
calamity,
catastrophe;
accident,
casualty,
cross,
reverse,
check,
contretemps,
rub;
backset†,
comedown,
setback [U.S.].
losing game;
falling
etc.
v.;
fall,
downfall;
ruination,
ruinousness;
undoing;
extremity;
ruin
etc.
(destruction)
162.
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Moby thesaurus: angry clouds, black cat, black clouds, blackening, blocking the light, breakers ahead, broken mirror, cardhouse, cause for alarm, clouding, crisis, danger, danger sign, dangerous ground, darkening, dimming, early symptom, eclipsing, emergency, endangerment, extinguishment, falling barometer, gaping chasm, halcyon bird, hazard, high sign, house of cards, imperilment, jeopardy, menace, obfuscation, obnubilation, obscuration, obscurement, obumbration, occulting, omen, overcast, overclouding, overshading, overshadowing, overshadowment, owl, pass, peril, pinch, plight, precursor, predicament, preliminary sign, premonitory sign, premonitory symptom, prodroma, prodrome, quarantine flag, quicksand, rainbow, raven, red flag, red light, risk, rocks ahead, shading, shadowing, shooting star, skull and crossbones, storm clouds, storm petrel, stormy petrel, strait, symptom, thin ice, threat, thundercloud, thunderhead, warning sign, warning signal, yellow flag, yellow jack ... show more.
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