Portentous
Related Definitions
[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"
Synonyms
fateful, foreboding(a), grandiloquent, important, overblown, pompous, pontifical, pretentious, prodigious, prophetic, prophetical, significant
Related Terms
alarming, amazing, apocalyptic, astonishing, astounding, awe-inspiring, awesome, bad, baleful, baneful, black, bodeful, boding, dark, dire, doomful, dreary, earnest, evil, evil-starred, exceptional, extraordinary, fabulous, fantastic, fatal, fateful, fore