portent

English - Turkish

Definition of portent in English Turkish dictionary: {i} kötüye işaret; {i} kötülük belirtisi; alamet; haberci; uğursuz; işaret; iyi ya da kötü bir şeyin habercisi; {i} kehanet; {i} delalet; belirti; mucize; harika
portentous: (kötü bir şeyin) haberci/işareti olan
portentous: uğursuz
portentous: {s} olağanüstü
portentous: {s} kötü
portentous: {s} mucizevi
portentous: olağanüstü/uğursuz

English - English

Definition of portent in English English dictionary: Something that portends an event about to occur, especially an unfortunate or evil event; an omen; Something regarded as portentous; a marvel; prodigy; A portending; significance; as, a howl of dire portent; anything that indicates what is to happen; {n} an omen or token of ill, sign, prodigy; 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; a sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle"; 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; {i} indication, hint; sign, omen of future events; That which portends, or foretoken; esp
portentous: ominous; portending evil
portentous: marvelous; prodigious; wonderful
portentous: ominous
portentous: {a} foreboding, ominous, monstrous
portentous: of ominous significance
portentous: Hence: Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; dreadful; as, a beast of portentous size
portentous: Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreshadowing, esp
portentous: {s} boding evil; prophesying bad events; impressive, amazing; ideal, exemplary; pompous, arrogant
portentous: 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
portentous: of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision"
portentous: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
portentous: of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous
portentous: foreshadowing ill; ominous
portentous: 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.'
portentous: monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision
portents: plural of portent