Associations to the word «Portentous»

Wiktionary

PORTENTOUS, adjective. Of momentous or ominous significance.
PORTENTOUS, adjective. Ominously prophetic.
PORTENTOUS, adjective. Puffed up with vanity.

Dictionary definition

PORTENTOUS, adjective. Of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision".
PORTENTOUS, adjective. Ominously prophetic.
PORTENTOUS, adjective. Puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin