English adjective: portentous | |||
1. | portentous of momentous or ominous significance | ||
Samples | Such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity. A prodigious vision. | ||
Synonyms | prodigious | ||
Similar | important, significant | ||
Antonyms | unimportant, insignificant | ||
2. | portentous ominously prophetic | ||
Synonyms | fateful, foreboding | ||
Similar | prophetic, prophetical | ||
Antonyms | unprophetic | ||
3. | portentous puffed up with vanity | ||
Samples | A grandiloquent and boastful manner. Overblown oratory. A pompous speech. Pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey. | ||
Synonyms | grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical | ||
Similar | pretentious | ||
Antonyms | unpretentious | ||