portentous
Collocations
4ADJ.
armed, fitting, late
VERB + PORTENTOUS
like
PORTENTOUS + NOUN
gong, mansion
ADV.
again
Definitions
adj
Of momentous or ominous significance.
Well may it sort [be fitting] that this portentous figure comes armed through our watch, so like the King that was and is the question of these wars.
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.
Puffed up with vanity.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adjective — puffed up with vanity
- grandiloquent
- overblown
- pompous
- pontifical
adjective — ominously prophetic
adjective — of momentous or ominous significance
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
4Well may it sort [be fitting] that this portentous figure comes armed through our watch, so like the King that was and is the question of these wars.
WiktionaryIt 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.
WiktionaryThe chaplain's first mention of the name Yossarian! had tolled deep in his memory like a portentous gong.
WiktionaryOf late, this portentous mansion has begun to give signs of dilapidation and decay.
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