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por·ten·tous
 portentous
- pronunciation:
- por
ten
t
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adjective |
| definition 1: |
being or like a portent.
- synonyms:
- fateful, foreboding, ominous, threatening
- similar words:
- auspicious, favorable, inauspicious, prophetic, propitious, sinister
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| definition 2: |
exciting fear or wonder; ominous or marvelous.
- synonyms:
- alarming, amazing, astonishing, awesome, fateful, forbidding, marvelous, menacing, ominous, sinister
- similar words:
- awful, black, dark, fantastic, foreboding, malign, miraculous, threatening
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| definition 3: |
marked by an excessive display of importance; pompous.
- synonyms:
- bombastic, grandiose, pompous, pretentious
- similar words:
- arrogant, conceited, lofty, proud, self-important, vainglorious
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| related words: |
formidable, ominous, ugly |
| derivations: |
portentously (adv.), portentousness (n.) |
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