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portentous meaning and definition
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Definition of portentous (adjective)
- of momentous or ominous significance
- "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision"
- synonyms: prodigious
- ominously prophetic
- synonyms: fateful, foreboding
- puffed up with vanity
- "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
- synonyms: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical
Source: Princeton University Wordnet