Portentous (Adjective)
Meaning 1
Puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek.
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Meaning 2
Ominously prophetic.
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Examples
- The dark and foreboding clouds gathered on the horizon, a portentous sign of the storm to come.
- The old wise woman's words were laced with a portentous tone, warning of impending doom.
- The eerie silence that fell over the town was a portentous omen, a sign that something was amiss.
- The ancient prophecy spoke of a great calamity, its portentous language striking fear into the hearts of all who heard it.
- The strange and unexplained occurrences in the abandoned mansion were a portentous warning to stay away.
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Meaning 3
Of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision".
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