portentous

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1. portentous - Adjective

2. portentous - Adjective Satellite

Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreshadowing, esp. foreshadowing ill; ominous.

Hence: Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; dreadful; as, a beast of portentous size.

Source: Webster's dictionary

pontifical prodigious pompous fateful foreboding grandiloquent overblown grand delphic important significant material amazing constitutive astounding

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golden small little normal minor ordinary

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a grandiloquent and boastful manner Source: Internet

overblown oratory Source: Internet

a pompous speech Source: Internet

pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey Source: Internet

such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity Source: Internet

a prodigious vision Source: Internet

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