Usually means: Ominously indicating something significant, foreboding.
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  1. portentously: Merriam-Webster
  2. portentously: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. portentously: Collins English Dictionary
  4. portentously: Vocabulary.com
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  6. portentously: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. portentously: Wiktionary
  8. portentously: Dictionary.com
  9. portentously: Rhymezone
  10. portentously: FreeDictionary.org
  11. portentously: Mnemonic Dictionary
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▸ adverb:  In an ominous manner.
▸ adverb:  In a pompous manner.

Similar:
ominously, forebodingly, menacingly, darkly, threateningly, dauntingly, eerily, inauspiciously, scarily, intimidatingly, more...

Opposite:
unpretentiously, casually, informally

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Similar:
ominously, forebodingly, menacingly, darkly, threateningly, dauntingly, eerily, inauspiciously, scarily, intimidatingly, more...

Opposite:
unpretentiously, casually, informally



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