portentousness

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portentous
(kötü bir şeyin) haberci/işareti olan
portentous
uğursuz
portentous
{s} olağanüstü
portentous
{s} kötü
portentous
{s} mucizevi
portentous
olağanüstü/uğursuz
Englisch - Englisch

Definition von portentousness im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

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portentous
ominous; portending evil
portentous
marvelous; prodigious; wonderful
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ominous
portentous
{a} foreboding, ominous, monstrous
portentous
of ominous significance
portentous
Hence: Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; dreadful; as, a beast of portentous size
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Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreshadowing, esp
portentous
{s} boding evil; prophesying bad events; impressive, amazing; ideal, exemplary; pompous, arrogant
portentous
Something that is portentous is important in indicating or affecting future events. In social politics, too, the city's contribution to 20th century thought and culture was no less portentous
portentous
of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision"
portentous
puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
portentous
of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous
portentous
foreshadowing ill; ominous
portentous
disapproval If someone's way of speaking, writing, or behaving is portentous, they speak, write, or behave more seriously than necessary because they want to impress other people. There was nothing portentous or solemn about him. He was bubbling with humour. portentous prose. = pompous + portentously por·ten·tous·ly `The difference is,' he said portentously, `you are Anglo-Saxons, we are Latins.'
portentous
monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision
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