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  1. portentous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  2. portentous: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
  3. portentous: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
  4. portentous: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
  5. portentous: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  6. Portentous, portentous: Wordnik [home, info]
  7. portentous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
  8. portentous: Wiktionary [home, info]
  9. portentous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  10. portentous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  11. portentous: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  12. Portentous, portentous: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  13. portentous: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  14. Portentous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  15. Portentous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  16. portentous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  17. portentous: Rhymezone [home, info]
  18. Portentous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  19. portentous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  20. portentous: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  21. portentous: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  22. portentous: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  23. portentous: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  24. portentous: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

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  1. portentous: Legal dictionary [home, info]

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  1. portentous: Encyclopedia [home, info]

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▸ adjective:  of momentous or ominous significance ("Such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity- Herman Melville")
▸ adjective:  of ominous significance
▸ adjective:  puffed up with vanity

Words similar to portentous:   fateful, foreboding, grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentously, portentousness, prodigious, more...


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