Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: portentous
IPA transcription: [pɔɹt'ɛntəs]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: portentous, prodigious
    Meaning: of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision"
  • Synonyms: fateful, foreboding(a), portentous
    Meaning: ominously prophetic
Usage examples
  • The night seemed portentous to him.
  • The three rooms seemed in portentous disorder.
  • There were circumstances, moreover, which coupled with late events, gave an unearthly and portentous character to the mania of the rider, and to the capabilities of the steed.
  • The impressive phenomena which characterize it, the prodigious noise, the awful flash, the portentous gloom, the blast, the rain, have left a profound impression on the myths of every land.