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[ adjective ] of momentous or ominous significance
Synonyms Examples "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville "a prodigious vision" Used in print (The Christian Science Monitor,...)There seems to be an unfortunate assumption that an hour of Chicago style jazz in prime evening time , for_example , could not be justified without the trimmings of a portentous documentary . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] of ominous significance
Synonyms Used in print (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)The Old_Man near the corner let the shadow pass_over him , sensing something portentous in it . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] puffed up with vanity
Synonyms Examples "a grandiloquent and boastful manner" "overblown oratory" "a pompous speech" "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek Related terms |
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