portentous, adj.
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freq. cnt. 3
of momentous or ominous significance
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2
portentous prodigious
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"such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville"a prodigious vision"
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ominously prophetic
<adj.all> (a) freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
fateful foreboding portentous
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puffed up with vanity
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2
grandiloquent overblown pompous pontifical portentous
sample sentences
"a grandiloquent and boastful manner""overblown oratory"
"a pompous speech"
"pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
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