PORTENTOUS

grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous

(adjective) puffed up with vanity; “a grandiloquent and boastful manner”; “overblown oratory”; “a pompous speech”; “pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey”- Newsweek

fateful, foreboding, portentous

(adjective) ominously prophetic

portentous, prodigious

(adjective) of momentous or ominous significance; “such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity”- Herman Melville; “a prodigious vision”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

portentous (comparative more portentous, superlative most portentous)

Of momentous or ominous significance.

Synonyms: ominous, momentous

Ominously prophetic.

Synonyms: foreshadowing, predictive, premonitory, prognosticatory

Puffed up with vanity.

Source: Wiktionary

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Por*tent"ous, a. Etym: [L. portentosus.]

1. Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreschadowing, esp. foreschadowing ill; ominous. For, I believe, they are portentous things. Shak. Victories of strange and almost portentous splendor. Macaulay.

2. Hence: Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; dreadful; as, a beast of portentous size. Roscommon.

– Por*tent"ous*ly, adv.

– Por*tent"ous*ness, n.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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