Associations to the word «Portentous»
Noun
- Frown
- Meteor
- Solemnity
- Scowl
- Gloom
- Breeding
- Stillness
- Brilliant
- Gravity
- Comet
- Silence
- Hush
- Cloud
- Countenance
- Whisper
- Tempest
- Agenda
- Statesman
- Spectacle
- Thunder
- Phrase
- Fate
- Imagination
- Pause
- Manner
- Shake
- Shadow
- Glance
- Phenomenon
- Heaven
- Slavery
- Occurrence
- Brow
- Sight
- Darkness
- Sign
- Deep
- Destiny
- Sound
- Announcement
- Something
- Ill
- Fury
- Voice
- Storm
- Night
- Danger
Adjective
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
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe.
Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with
things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.