Synonyms of the word portentous


PORTENTOUSFATEFUL - FOREBODING - GRANDILOQUENT - IMPORTANT - OVERBLOWN - POMPOUS - PONTIFICAL - PRETENTIOUS - PRODIGIOUS - PROPHETIC - PROPHETICAL - SIGNIFICANT

portentous

  • adj. Of momentous or ominous significance.
  • adj. Ominously prophetic.
  • adj. Puffed up with vanity.

fateful

  • adj. Momentous, significant, setting or sealing one’s fate.
  • adj. Determined in advance by fate, fated.

foreboding

  • n. A sense of evil to come.
  • n. An evil omen.
  • adj. Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.
  • v. present participle of forebode.

grandiloquent

  • adj. (of a person, their language or writing) given to using language in a showy way by using an excessive…

important

  • adj. Having relevant and crucial value.

overblown

  • adj. Of exaggerated importance; too heavily emphasized, hyped, etc.
  • v. past participle of overblow.

pompous

  • adj. Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.

pontifical

  • adj. Of or pertaining to a pontiff.
  • adj. Pompous, dignified or dogmatic.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to the pontifices of Ancient Rome.
  • adj. Of or relating to the building of bridges.
  • n. A book containing the offices, or formulas, used by a pontiff.

pretentious

  • adj. Marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction.
  • adj. Ostentatious; intended to impress others.

prodigious

  • adj. Very big in size or quantity; gigantic; colossal; huge.
  • adj. extraordinarily exciting or amazing.
  • adj. (obsolete) ominous, portentous.

prophetic

  • adj. of, or relating to a prophecy or a prophet.
  • adj. predicted, as by a prophecy.

prophetical

  • adj. prophetic.

significant

  • adj. Signifying something; carrying meaning.
  • adj. Having a covert or hidden meaning.
  • adj. Having a noticeable or major effect; notable.
  • adj. Reasonably large in number or amount.
  • adj. (statistics) Having a low probability of occurring by chance (for example, having high correlation and…
  • n. That which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol.

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