Definition of portentous
Adjectives
of momentous or ominous significance
"such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville
- Synonyms:
- prodigious
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important, significant
important in effect or meaning
ominously prophetic
- Synonyms:
- fateful, foreboding
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prophetic, prophetical
foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention
puffed up with vanity
- Synonyms:
- grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical
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pretentious
making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction