portentous

[pɔːˈtentəs] [pɔːrˈtentəs]
  • 副词:portentously;
  • 名词:portentousness;
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    • Adjective
      1. of momentous or ominous significance;
      "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville"a prodigious vision"
      2. of ominous significance
      3. puffed up with vanity;
      "a grandiloquent and boastful manner""overblown oratory""a pompous speech""pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek