About The Word Portentous
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Portentous
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What's The Definition Of Portentous?
[adj] puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
[adj] of ominous significance [adj] of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision" Synonyms | Synonyms for Portentous: fateful | foreboding(a) | grandiloquent | important | overblown | pompous | pontifical | pretentious | prodigious | prophetic | prophetical | significant Related Terms | Find terms related to Portentous: alarming | amazing | apocalyptic | astonishing | astounding | awe-inspiring | awesome | bad | baleful | baneful | black | bodeful | boding | dark | dire | doomful | dreary | earnest | evil | evil-starred | exceptional | extraordinary | fabulous | fantastic | fatal | fateful | foreboding | forerunning | forewarning | formidable | gloomy | grave | heavy | ill | ill-boding | ill-fated | ill-omened | ill-starred | imposing | inauspicious | indescribable | ineffable | legendary | lowering | marvelous | menacing | mind-boggling | miraculous | momentous | mythical | noteworthy | of evil portent | ominous | phenomenal | portending | precautional | precautionary | precursive | precursory | premonitory | prodigious | prodromal | prodromic | remarkable | serious | sinister | sober | solemn | somber | star-crossed | stupefying | stupendous | threatening | unexampled | unfavorable | unfortunate | unlucky | unparalleled | unprecedented | unpromising | unpropitious | unspeakable | untoward | weighty | wonderful | wondrous See Also | Portentous In Webster's Dictionary \Por*tent"ous\, a. [L. portentosus.]
1. Of the nature of a portent; containing portents;
foreshadowing, esp. foreshadowing ill; ominous.
For, I believe, they are portentous things. --Shak.
Victories of strange and almost portentous splendor.
--Macaulay.
2. Hence: Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; dreadful; as, a
beast of portentous size. --Roscommon. --
{Por*tent"ous*ly}, adv. -- {Por*tent"ous*ness}, n.
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