ominous; portending evil, marvelous; prodigious; wonderful, puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek, of ominous significance, Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreshadowing, esp, of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision", foreshadowing ill; ominous, monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision, of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous, Hence: Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; dreadful; as, a beast of portentous size, boding evil; prophesying bad events; impressive, amazing; ideal, exemplary; pompous, arrogant, disapproval If someone's way of speaking, writing, or behaving is portentous, they speak, write, or behave more seriously than necessary because they want to impress other people. There was nothing portentous or solemn about him. He was bubbling with humour. portentous prose. = pompous + portentously por·ten·tous·ly `The difference is,' he said portentously, `you are Anglo-Saxons, we are Latins.', Something that is portentous is important in indicating or affecting future events. In social politics, too, the city's contribution to 20th century thought and culture was no less portentous, Something regarded as portentous; a marvel; prodigy, A portending; significance; as, a howl of dire portent, Something that portends an event about to occur, especially an unfortunate or evil event; an omen, in a pompous manner, in an ominous manner, A portent is something that indicates what is likely to happen in the future. The savage civil war there could be a portent of what's to come in the rest of the region = indication, sign. a sign or warning that something is going to happen = omen portent of, indication, hint; sign, omen of future events, That which portends, or foretoken; esp, that which portends evil; a sign of coming calamity; an omen; a sign, Forewarning of something to be feared; hint or indication of a future undesired event or consequence, a sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle", in the manner of boding evil; ideally, in an exemplary manner; arrogantly, pompously, in a portentous manner; "portentously, the engines began to roll,
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ominous; portending evil
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marvelous; prodigious; wonderful
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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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of ominous significance
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Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreshadowing, esp
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of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision"
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foreshadowing ill; ominous
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monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision
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of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous
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Hence: Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; dreadful; as, a beast of portentous size
disapproval If someone's way of speaking, writing, or behaving is portentous, they speak, write, or behave more seriously than necessary because they want to impress other people. There was nothing portentous or solemn about him. He was bubbling with humour. portentous prose. = pompous + portentously por·ten·tous·ly `The difference is,' he said portentously, `you are Anglo-Saxons, we are Latins.'
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Something that is portentous is important in indicating or affecting future events. In social politics, too, the city's contribution to 20th century thought and culture was no less portentous
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portent
Something regarded as portentous; a marvel; prodigy
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portent
A portending; significance; as, a howl of dire portent
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portent
Something that portends an event about to occur, especially an unfortunate or evil event; an omen
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portentously
in a pompous manner
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portentously
in an ominous manner
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portent
A portent is something that indicates what is likely to happen in the future. The savage civil war there could be a portent of what's to come in the rest of the region = indication, sign. a sign or warning that something is going to happen = omen portent of
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portent
indication, hint; sign, omen of future events isim
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portent
That which portends, or foretoken; esp
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portent
that which portends evil; a sign of coming calamity; an omen; a sign
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portent
Forewarning of something to be feared; hint or indication of a future undesired event or consequence
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portent
a sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle"
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portentously
in the manner of boding evil; ideally, in an exemplary manner; arrogantly, pompously
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portentously
in a portentous manner; "portentously, the engines began to roll
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