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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Portentous \Por*tent"ous\, a. [L. portentosus.]
1. Of the nature of a portent; containing portents;
foreshadowing, esp. foreshadowing ill; ominous.
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For, I believe, they are portentous things. --Shak.
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Victories of strange and almost portentous splendor.
--Macaulay.
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2. Hence: Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; dreadful; as, a
beast of portentous size. --Roscommon.
[1913 Webster] -- {Por*tent"ous*ly}, adv. --
{Por*tent"ous*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
portentous
adj 1: of momentous or ominous significance; "such a
portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman
Melville; "a prodigious vision" [syn: {portentous},
{prodigious}]
2: ominously prophetic [syn: {fateful}, {foreboding(a)},
{portentous}]
3: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner";
"overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific
gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek [syn:
{grandiloquent}, {overblown}, {pompous}, {pontifical},
{portentous}]
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