portentous
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- of momentous or ominous significance; - Herman Melville
- "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"
- ominously prophetic
- puffed up with vanity; ; ; ; - Newsweek
Adj
- Of momentous or ominous significance.
- Ominously prophetic.
- Puffed up with vanity.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Latin portentōsus, from portentus (“predicted”) + -ōsus. Compare earlier portentuous (via Middle English from Latin portentuōsus). By surface analysis, portent + -ous.
Synonyms
augurous, baleful, big, bodeful, boding, brooding, central, consequential, critical, crucial, dire, disastrous, epochful, essential, extraordinary, fatal, fatefraught, fateful, fatesome, foreboding, foreshadowing, grandiloquent, heavy, high on the totem pole, historic, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, inauspicate, inauspicious, innegligible, key, life-or-death, meaningful, momentous, necessary, nefastous, noted, noticeable, observable, omenic, ominous, outstanding, overblown, paramount, pertinent, pompous, pontifical, portentous, predictive, premonitory, presageful, presagious, prodigious, prognosticatory, relevant, remarkable, salient, significant, sinister, star-crossed, sullen, unignorable, vain, valuable, vital, weighty
Scrabble Score: 12
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