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PORTENTOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Puffed up with vanity
Example:
pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey
Synonyms:
grandiloquent; overblown; pompous; pontifical; portentous
Classified under:
Similar:
pretentious (making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Ominously prophetic
Synonyms:
fateful; foreboding; portentous
Classified under:
Similar:
prophetic; prophetical (foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention)
Derivation:
portent (a sign of something about to happen)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Of momentous or ominous significance
Example:
a prodigious vision
Synonyms:
portentous; prodigious
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
important; significant (important in effect or meaning)
Derivation:
portent (a sign of something about to happen)
