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Meaning of word portentous from English dictionary with examples, synonyms and antonyms.

Meaning : Of momentous or ominous significance.

Example : Such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity.
A prodigious vision.

Synonyms : prodigious

Meaning : Ominously prophetic.

Meaning : Puffed up with vanity.

Example : A grandiloquent and boastful manner.
Overblown oratory.
A pompous speech.
Pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey.

Synonyms : grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical

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