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English to English adjective
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Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreshadowing, esp. foreshadowing ill; ominous. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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of momentous or ominous significance | | Example: such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity
a prodigious vision
source: wordnet30
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ominously prophetic | | source: wordnet30
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puffed up with vanity | | Example: a grandiloquent and boastful manner
overblown oratory
a pompous speech
pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey
source: wordnet30
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