Definitions for: Portentous

[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"

Webster (1913) 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.

Synonyms: fateful, foreboding(a), grandiloquent, important, overblown, pompous, pontifical, pretentious, prodigious, prophetic, prophetical, significant

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