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portentous::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | fateful, foreboding |
| Derivation | portent |
portentous::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical |
portentous::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | prodigious |
| Derivation | portent |
such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity.
Examples of portentous
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Herrmann's muscular and exotically colored music is portentous, the prose purple.
From the ocregister.com
Every flicker of emotion on the faces of the visitors could be vastly portentous.
From the time.com
Too many of these drawn-out trademark pauses can lead to portentous overacting.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
Finding such a sign would be an extraordinary and perhaps portentous discovery.
From the newscientist.com
As a piece of narrative, though, it's portentous, sluggish and fatally ungripping.
From the independent.co.uk
A reporter of the old school, McKelway was never portentous and rarely judgmental.
From the economist.com
In Marrakesh, everyone who heard the blast knew something portentous had occurred.
From the time.com
A chilling, portentous event seems to occur off the page and that's your lot.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The boy receives a portentous message in a time capsule buried at his school.
From the usatoday.com
- Of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision"
- Fateful: ominously prophetic
- Grandiloquent: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
- (portentously) in a portentous manner; "portentously, the engines began to roll"
- An omen (also called portent or presage) is a phenomenon that is believed to foretell the future, often signifying the advent of change. ...
- Ominous; portending evil; marvelous; prodigious; wonderful
