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

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