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English adjective: portentous

1. portentous of momentous or ominous significance


SamplesSuch a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity.
A prodigious vision.


Synonymsprodigious


Similarimportant, significant


Antonymsunimportant, insignificant

2. portentous ominously prophetic


Synonymsfateful, foreboding


Similarprophetic, prophetical


Antonymsunprophetic

3. portentous puffed up with vanity


SamplesA grandiloquent and boastful manner.
Overblown oratory.
A pompous speech.
Pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey.


Synonymsgrandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical


Similarpretentious


Antonymsunpretentious









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