 portentous |
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| 1. | [ adjective ] of momentous or ominous significance | |
| Synonyms: | prodigious | |
| Examples: | "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville "a prodigious vision" |
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| Related terms: | significant | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] of ominous significance | |
| Synonyms: | foreboding fateful | |
| Related terms: | prophetic | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] puffed up with vanity | |
| Synonyms: | pompous overblown pontifical grandiloquent | |
| Examples: | "a grandiloquent and boastful manner" "overblown oratory" "a pompous speech" "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek |
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| Related terms: | pretentious | |
| Similar spelling: |
portentously portent Portunus Portnoy portend portmanteau Porto_Novo |
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