portentous
/pɔrtˈɛntʌs/
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Adjective Satellite
of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision"
Adjective Satellite
ominously prophetic
Adjective Satellite
puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek