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Meaning of portentous
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
portentous
adj 1: of momentous or ominous significance; "such a
portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman
Melville; "a prodigious vision" [syn: {portentous},
{prodigious}]
2: ominously prophetic [syn: {fateful}, {foreboding(a)},
{portentous}]
3: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner";
"overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific
gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek [syn:
{grandiloquent}, {overblown}, {pompous}, {pontifical},
{portentous}]
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