Portentous
adjectivepoʊr'tɛntəs
Adjective
of momentous or ominous significance
“such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity”
Similar:Prodigiousominously prophetic
puffed up with vanity
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Similar Words
- Fateful
- Foreboding
- Grandiloquent
- Overblown
- Pompous
- Pontifical
- Prodigious
- Prophetic
- Prophetical
- Pretentious
- Important
- Significant
- Portent