portentous (redirected from portentousness)

por·ten·tous  (pôr-tnts, pr-)

adj.

1. Of the nature of or constituting a portent; foreboding: "The present aspect of society is portentous of great change" (Edward Bellamy).

2. Full of unspecifiable significance; exciting wonder and awe: "Such a portentous and mysterious monster roused all my curiosity" (Herman Melville).

3. Marked by pompousness; pretentiously weighty.

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por·tentous·ly adv.

por·tentous·ness n.

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portentous [pɔːˈtɛntəs]

adj

1. of momentous or ominous significance

2. miraculous, amazing, or awe-inspiring; prodigious

3. self-important or pompous

portentously  adv

portentousness  n

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	portentous - of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision" prodigious significant, important - important in effect or meaning; "a significant change in tax laws"; "a significant change in the Constitution"; "a significant contribution"; "significant details"; "statistically significant"
	2.	portentous - ominously prophetic foreboding, fateful prophetic, prophetical - foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention; "prophetic writings"; "prophetic powers"; "words that proved prophetic"
	3.	portentous - puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek overblown, pompous, grandiloquent, 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"

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portentous

adjective

1. pompous, solemn, ponderous, self-important, pontifical There was nothing portentous or solemn about him.

2. significant, alarming, sinister, ominous, important, threatening, crucial, forbidding, menacing, momentous, fateful, minatory, bodeful portentous prophecies of doom

Translations

portentous [pɔːˈtentəs] ADJ

1. (= ominous, prodigious) → portentoso

2. (= pompous) → pomposo

portentous

adj

(= ominous) → unheilschwanger

(= grave) → gewichtig; (= pompous) → bombastisch

(= marvellous) → gewaltig

portentous [pɔːˈtɛntəs] adj (frm) (ominous) → funesto/a; (grave) → solenne, grave; (pompous) → pomposo/a

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portentous [pɔːˈtɛntəs] adj (frm) (ominous) → funesto/a; (grave) → solenne, grave; (pompous) → pomposo/a