portentous
adjEtymology
Of multiple origins: * Borrowed from Latin portentōsus, from portentus (“predicted”) + -ōsus. Compare earlier portentuous (via Middle English from Latin portentuōsus). By surface analysis, portent + -ous. * Borrowed from French portentueux
- borrowed from portentueux
- borrowed from portentōsus
Definitions
Of momentous or ominous significance.
- Well may it sort [be fitting] that this portentous figure comes armed through our watch, so like the King that was and is the question of these wars.
- It is no longer in my possession, but my memory holds almost every word of its portentous message; and again I affirm my confidence in the sanity of the man who wrote it.
- The chaplain's first mention of the name Yossarian! had tolled deep in his memory like a portentous gong.
Ominously prophetic.
Puffed up with vanity.
The neighborhood
- synonymfateful
- synonymprophetic
- synonymsignificant
- antonymhumble
- antonyminsignificant
- antonymtrivial
- antonymunremarkable
- neighborportent
- neighboraugury
- neighborforeboding
- neighborominous
- neighborpretentious
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at portentous. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at portentous. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at portentous
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA