portentous

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adjective

1. of momentous or ominous significance (Freq. 2)
- "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville
- a prodigious vision
• Syn:
prodigious
• Similar to:
significant, important
• Derivationally related forms:
prodigy (for: prodigious), portent
2. ominously prophetic (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
fateful, foreboding
• Similar to:
prophetic, prophetical
• Derivationally related forms:
portent
3. puffed up with vanity
- a grandiloquent and boastful manner
- overblown oratory
- a pompous speech
- "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
• Syn:
grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical
• Similar to:
pretentious
• Derivationally related forms:
pomp (for: pompous), pomposity (for: pompous), pompousness (for: pompous)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, fateful, foreboding(a), prodigious