Defenition of the word portentous

• Defenition of the word portentous

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

Synonyms for the word portentous

• • arrogant
  • crucial
  • fateful
  • foreboding
  • grandiloquent
  • haughty
  • important
  • ominous
  • overblown
  • pompous
  • pontifical
  • pretentious
  • prodigious
  • self-important
  • significant
  • threatening

Similar words in the portentous

• • important
  • portentous
  • portentously
  • pretentious
  • prophetic
  • prophetical
  • significant

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