portentous

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portentous Definition

• (s) of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision"
• (s) of ominous significance
• (s) puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek

portentous Synonyms

• fateful
• foreboding(a)
• grandiloquent
• overblown
• pompous
• pontifical
• portentous
• prodigious