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Portentous

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Definitions for Portentous

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

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