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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
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- 1adjective
Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreshadowing, esp. foreshadowing ill; ominous.
- 2adjective
Hence: Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; dreadful; as, a beast of portentous size.
- 3adjective
puffed up with vanity- Newsweek
"a grandiloquent and boastful manner"
"overblown oratory"
- 4adjective
ominously prophetic
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- 5adjective
of momentous or ominous significance- Herman Melville
"such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"
"a prodigious vision"
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