portentous
[pawr-ten-tuh s, pohr-]
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adjective
of the nature of a portent; momentous.
ominously significant or indicative: a portentous defeat.
marvelous; amazing; prodigious.
Origin of portentous
Synonyms for portentous
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"There's a man you don't want to have much to do with," she said portentously.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922Lucy Maud Montgomery
It was so portentously produced that her ladyship had somehow to meet it.
Some Short StoriesHenry James
No one could have been so portentously sagacious as he looked.
John ForsterPercy Hethrington Fitzgerald
This, sir, he said portentously, is the language of the Derby.
Lord Randolph ChurchillWinston Spencer Churchill
But the punch which succeeded was of excellent quality, and portentously strong.
The Surgeon's DaughterSir Walter Scott
portentous
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