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portentous   (TTS Sound)

The adj portentous has 3 senses

• portentous, prodigious -- (of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision")


• fateful, foreboding, portentous -- (ominously prophetic)


• grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous -- (puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek)