portentous

portentous is a 10-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreshadowing, esp. foreshadowing ill; ominous. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreshadowing, esp. foreshadowing ill; ominous.
2. adjective. Hence: Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; dreadful; as, a beast of portentous size.
3. adjective. puffed up with vanity- Newsweek

   "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"

   "overblown oratory"

   Synonyms: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical

4. adjective. ominously prophetic

   Synonyms: fateful, foreboding

5. adjective. of momentous or ominous significance- Herman Melville

   "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"

   "a prodigious vision"

   Synonyms: prodigious

Synonyms

grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, fateful, foreboding, prodigious

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in portentous:

notopterus

Common word forms

portentously, portentousness

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