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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
portentous
adj 1: of momentous or ominous significance; "such a
portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman
Melville; "a prodigious vision" [syn: portentous,
prodigious]
2: ominously prophetic [syn: fateful, foreboding(a),
portentous]
3: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner";
"overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific
gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek [syn:
grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical,
portentous]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Portentous \Por*tent"ous\, a. [L. portentosus.]
1. Of the nature of a portent; containing portents;
foreshadowing, esp. foreshadowing ill; ominous.
[1913 Webster]
For, I believe, they are portentous things. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
Victories of strange and almost portentous splendor.
--Macaulay.
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2. Hence: Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; dreadful; as, a
beast of portentous size. --Roscommon.
[1913 Webster] -- Por*tent"ous*ly, adv. --
Por*tent"ous*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
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Thesaurus Results for Portentous:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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, foreboding, forerunning, forewarning, formidable, gloomy, grave, heavy, ill, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, imposing, inauspicious, indescribable, ineffable, legendary, lowering, marvelous, menacing, mind-boggling, miraculous, momentous, mythical, noteworthy, of evil portent, ominous, phenomenal, portending, precautional, precautionary, precursive, precursory, premonitory, prodigious, prodromal, prodromic, remarkable, serious, sinister, sober, solemn, somber, star-crossed, stupefying, stupendous, threatening, unexampled, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unparalleled, unprecedented, unpromising, unpropitious, unspeakable, untoward, weighty, wonderful, wondrous |
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