| ADJECTIVE | all | portentous, prodigious | of momentous or ominous significance |
|---|---|---|---|
| all | portentous, fateful, foreboding | ominously prophetic | |
| all | portentous, grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical | puffed up with vanity |
| Sounds | paorteh'ntahs | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abacus ... zealous: 1164 rhymes with ahs... | |
| Meaning | Of momentous or ominous significance. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville | |
| Synonym | prodigious | |
| Broader | significant, important | Important in effect or meaning / meaning |
| Spanish | portentoso | |
| Nouns | portent | a sign of something about to happen |
| Meaning | ominously prophetic. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | fateful, foreboding | |
| Broader | prophetic, prophetical | foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention |
| Spanish | aciago, fatídico | |
| Nouns | portent | a sign of something about to happen |
| Meaning | Puffed up with vanity. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical | |
| Broader | pretentious | making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction |
| Spanish | altisonante, ampuloso, campanudo, grandilocuente, grandílocuo, hinchado, pomposo | |
| Catalan | altiloqüent, altisonant, ampul·lós, campanut, grandil·loqüent, inflat, pompós | |
| Adverbs | portentously | in a portentous manner |
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