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portentous    音标拼音: [pɔrt'ɛntəs]
a. 前兆的,不吉的,可惊的,奇怪的,自大的

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portentous
adj 1: of momentous or ominous significance; "such a
portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman
Melville; "a prodigious vision" [synonym: {portentous},
{prodigious}]
2: ominously prophetic [synonym: {fateful}, {foreboding(a)},
{portentous}]
3: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner";
"overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific
gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek [synonym:
{grandiloquent}, {overblown}, {pompous}, {pontifical},
{portentous}]

Portentous \Por*tent"ous\, a. [L. portentosus.]
1. Of the nature of a portent; containing portents;
foreshadowing, esp. foreshadowing ill; ominous.
[1913 Webster]

For, I believe, they are portentous things. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

Victories of strange and almost portentous splendor.
--Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]

2. Hence: Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; dreadful; as, a
beast of portentous size. --Roscommon.
[1913 Webster] -- {Por*tent"ous*ly}, adv. --
{Por*tent"ous*ness}, n.
[1913 Webster]

86 Moby Thesaurus words for "portentous":
alarming, amazing, apocalyptic, astonishing, astounding,
awe-inspiring, awesome, bad, baleful, baneful, black, bodeful,
boding, dark, dire, doomful, dreary, earnest, evil, evil-starred,
exceptional, extraordinary, fabulous, fantastic, fatal, fateful,
foreboding, forerunning, forewarning, formidable, gloomy, grave,
heavy, ill, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred,
imposing, inauspicious, indescribable, ineffable, legendary,
lowering, marvelous, menacing, mind-boggling, miraculous,
momentous, mythical, noteworthy, of evil portent, ominous,
phenomenal, portending, precautional, precautionary, precursive,
precursory, premonitory, prodigious, prodromal, prodromic,
remarkable, serious, sinister, sober, solemn, somber, star-crossed,
stupefying, stupendous, threatening, unexampled, unfavorable,
unfortunate, unlucky, unparalleled, unprecedented, unpromising,
unpropitious, unspeakable, untoward, weighty, wonderful,
wondrous


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