Associations to the word «Portentous»
Adverb
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
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make
his words good.