portentous
1. of momentous or ominous significance (Freq. 2) - "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville - a prodigious vision • Syn: prodigious • Similar to: significant, important • Derivationally related forms: prodigy (for: prodigious), portent 2. ominously prophetic (Freq. 1) • Syn: fateful, foreboding • Similar to: prophetic, prophetical • Derivationally related forms: portent 3. puffed up with vanity - a grandiloquent and boastful manner - overblown oratory - a pompous speech - "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek • Syn: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical • Similar to: pretentious • Derivationally related forms: pomp (for: pompous), pomposity (for: pompous), pompousness (for: pompous)
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