Definitions for portentous

portentous por·ten·tous

Spelling: [pawr-ten-tuh s, pohr-]
IPA: /pɔrˈtɛn təs, poʊr-/

Portentous is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 654 anagrams from letters in portentous (enooprsttu).

Definitions for portentous

adjective

  1. of the nature of a portent; momentous.
  2. ominously significant or indicative:
  3. marvelous; amazing; prodigious.

Origin of portentous

From the Latin word portentōsus, dating back to 1530-40. See portent, -ous

Examples for portentous

Little moments are portentous of grand sweeping changes, and big, dramatic moments are meaningless to all but the few involved.

“This is not meant to be pompous, portentous museum entertainment,” Branagh says.

As such, there is a portentous quality here that can occasionally get in its own way.

I was as a man sapped of all strength by some portentous struggle.

These portentous rumblings aside, no coherent position on ectogenesis has emerged so far within the pro-life movement.

He delivered himself of this long speech with an air of portentous gravity.

Therefore he drew him aside in a manner as portentous and ingratiating as he could make it.

The most portentous crisis in the history of the human family has just passed.

Behind these macho moves lie some pretty dramatic and portentous policy decisions.

Naming him was a portentous proceeding and one not to be lightly gone about.

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