portentous
adjective
of the nature of a portent; momentous.
portentousness
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a word derived from
portentous.
Example Sentences
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“It should obviously be being written as comedy. Instead, the story is being chronicled with maximum portentousness by its own protagonists.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025
At the time, plenty of rival news outlets—including Slate—ribbed the Post for its portentousness.
From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2025
And it’s that very irony which Mendes replaces with a lumbering portentousness.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 7, 2020
Avoiding portentousness, Fountain, a veteran New York Times science reporter, paints a deft portrait of life in these remote outposts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2017
It was unfortunate that the nervous strain of being the Napoleon of Wall Street had had the effect of increasing to a marked extent the portentousness of Bailey's always portentous manner.
From The Coming of Bill by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
