Portentous - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|pɔːrˈtentəs|
Brit.
|pɔːˈtentəs|
adjective
- of momentous or ominous significance (syn: prodigious)
- puffed up with vanity (syn: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical)
such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity
- ominously prophetic (syn: fateful, foreboding)- puffed up with vanity (syn: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical)
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...an eerie and portentous stillness hung over the camp the night before the battle...
...in 1969 people regarded the first landing on the moon as a truly portentous event...
Recent developments are as portentous as the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
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