Vi fant 6 definisjoner av portentous på engelsk.
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| portentous - of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision" | ||
| prodigious | ||
| significant, important fairly large; "won by a substantial margin" | ||
| portentous - puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek | ||
| grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical | ||
| pretentious making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition" | ||
| portentous - ominously prophetic | ||
| fateful, foreboding | ||
| prophetic, prophetical foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention; "prophetic writings"; "prophetic powers"; "words that proved prophetic" | ||
