Meaning of PORTENTOUS
| Pronunciation: | | powr'tentus
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- [adj] puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
- [adj] of ominous significance
- [adj] of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision"
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| | Synonyms: | | fateful, foreboding(a), grandiloquent, important, overblown, pompous, pontifical, pretentious, prodigious, prophetic, prophetical, significant |
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| | Definition: | | \Por*tent"ous\, a. [L. portentosus.]
1. Of the nature of a portent; containing portents;
foreshadowing, esp. foreshadowing ill; ominous.
For, I believe, they are portentous things. --Shak.
Victories of strange and almost portentous splendor.
--Macaulay.
2. Hence: Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; dreadful; as, a
beast of portentous size. --Roscommon. --
{Por*tent"ous*ly}, adv. -- {Por*tent"ous*ness}, n.
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