PORTENTOUS

• (adj.) puffed up with vanity

  "a grandiloquent and boastful manner", "overblown oratory", "a pompous speech", "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"

  synonyms : grandiloquent , overblown , pompous , pontifical

  His pontifical speech made him a subject of ridicule. -added by naila_inlas

  His overblown oratory impressed no one. -added by naila_inlas

• (adj.) ominously prophetic

  synonyms : fateful , foreboding

• (adj.) of momentous or ominous significance

  "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity", "a prodigious vision"

  synonyms : prodigious

  The prodigious darkness of the forest indicated what horrors it held within. -added by naila_inlas

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