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1. (adj.) portentous
of the nature of a portent; momentous.
2. portentous
ominously significant or indicative:
a portentous defeat.
3. portentous
solemnly self-important; pompous.
4. portentous
marvelous; amazing; prodigious.
Etymology: (1530–40; < L portentōsus. See portent , -ous)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) portentous, prodigious
of momentous or ominous significance
"such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision"
2. (adj) fateful, foreboding(a), portentous
ominously prophetic
3. (adj) grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous
puffed up with vanity
"a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
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1. (adj) portentous
of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreshadowing, esp. foreshadowing ill; ominous
2. (adj) portentous
hence: Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; dreadful; as, a beast of portentous size
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