portentous
Adjective
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Adjective
portentous
- Of momentous or ominous significance.
- Synonyms: ominous, momentous
- 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 2:
- It is no longer in my possession, but my memory holds almost every word of its portentous message; and again I affirm my confidence in the sanity of the man who wrote it.
- Ominously prophetic.
- Synonyms: foreshadowing, predictive, premonitory, prognosticatory
- Puffed up with vanity.
- German: unheildrohend
- Italian: portentoso
- Russian: злове́щий
- Spanish: portentoso
- German: hochtrabend, wichtigtuerisch
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