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.

Classification

All adjective clusters.

Synonyms

• Overblown
• Grandiloquent
• Pompous
• Pontifical

Meaning ²

Ominously prophetic.

Classification

All adjective clusters.

Synonyms

• Fateful
• Foreboding

Related Words

• Portent (noun)

Meaning ³

Of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision".

Classification

All adjective clusters.

Synonyms

• Prodigious

Related Words

• Portent (noun)