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Words related to portentous

Related / Similar Words: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, fateful, foreboding(a), prodigious

Definition:

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

of ominous significance;

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

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