portentous

English - Turkish

Definition of portentous in English Turkish dictionary: (kötü bir şeyin) haberci/işareti olan; uğursuz; {s} olağanüstü; {s} kötü; {s} mucizevi; olağanüstü/uğursuz
portentous; ominous: uğursuz, meşum
portent: {i} kötüye işaret
portent: {i} kötülük belirtisi
portent: alamet
portent: haberci
portent: uğursuz
portent: işaret
portent: belirti
portent: mucize
portent: harika
portent: iyi ya da kötü bir şeyin habercisi
portentousness: harikuladelik
portent: {i} kehanet
portent: {i} delalet

English - English

Definition of portentous in English English dictionary: ominous; portending evil; marvelous; prodigious; wonderful; {a} foreboding, ominous, monstrous; of ominous significance; Hence: Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; dreadful; as, a beast of portentous size; Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreshadowing, esp; {s} boding evil; prophesying bad events; impressive, amazing; ideal, exemplary; pompous, arrogant; 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; of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision"; puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek; of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous; foreshadowing ill; ominous; 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.'; monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision; ominous
portent: Something that portends an event about to occur, especially an unfortunate or evil event; an omen
portentously: in a pompous manner
portentously: in an ominous manner
portent: anything that indicates what is to happen
portent: {n} an omen or token of ill, sign, prodigy
portent: A portent is something that indicates what is likely to happen in the future. The savage civil war there could be a portent of what's to come in the rest of the region = indication, sign. a sign or warning that something is going to happen = omen portent of
portent: something regarded as portentous; a marvel; prodigy
portent: a portending; significance; as, a howl of dire portent
portent: a sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle"
portent: that which portends evil; a sign of coming calamity; an omen; a sign
portent: Forewarning of something to be feared; hint or indication of a future undesired event or consequence
portent: {i} indication, hint; sign, omen of future events
portent: That which portends, or foretoken; esp
portentously: in the manner of boding evil; ideally, in an exemplary manner; arrogantly, pompously
portentously: in a portentous manner; "portentously, the engines began to roll