PORTENTOUS
\pɔːtˈɛntəs], \pɔːtˈɛntəs], \p_ɔː_t_ˈɛ_n_t_ə_s]\
Definitions of PORTENTOUS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
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of ominous significance
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puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
By Princeton University
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of ominous significance
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puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreshadowing, esp. foreshadowing ill; ominous.
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Hence: Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; dreadful; as, a beast of portentous size.
By Oddity Software
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Foreshadowing evil; dreadful.
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Portentously.
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Portentousness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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