GeneralConnection.com ➔ Dictionary
Dictionary Search

portentous

Synonyms

Adjective

1. prodigious

2. significant, important, fateful

3. foreboding, prophetic, prophetical, grandiloquent

4. overblown, pompous, pontifical, pretentious

Usage
Film Review: Sirāt is an Astonishingly Unrelenting, Portentous Thriller - Awards Radar
Word of the Day: portentous (Published 2024) - The New York Times
Turner & Constable review – boiling portentous skies versus two men and a dog - The Guardian
Turgid, vacuous, portentous: The Sandman reviewed - The Spectator
What's the Difference Between the Adjectives 'Portentous' and 'Pretentious'? - ThoughtCo
Motorcyclist reflects on portentous crash - Jackson Hole News&Guide
For The Birds: Woodpeckers of Westchester - A Portentous Pileated - The Examiner News
UFOMAMMUT unveils 'Crookhead' EP: a portentous premonition of their 25th anniversary milestone - IDIOTEQ.com
1619–A Portentous Year. A Book Review and Summary - baconsrebellion.com
A New 'Real World' Reaffirms Reality TV's Portentous Effects - Frieze
MichiGONE: New Migration Data Dark and Portentous - Mackinac Center
Julio de Diego - Artnet
Megalopolis film review: Francis Ford Coppola's passion project is a 'pretentious, portentous curio' - BBC
DANH VO's Portentous Art Mother Tongue and I M U U R 2 - The Brooklyn Rail
A prodigious debate around a common term - Columbia Journalism Review
Why Is Prog Rock So Inadequate, Simplistic, Reductive, Portentous and Perfect? - PopMatters
Rude amid the Rodins: Sarah Lucas’ send-up of portentous works - SFGATE
Bruce Nauman and David Hammons unveil portentously empty galleries in Los Angeles - The Art Newspaper
Pointless handbags and portentous brooches: the year in fashion - The Guardian
Life and Combat for Republicans at Berkeley (Published 2017) - The New York Times
Opinion | To Russia with Love: Fifa gets portentous view of its future World Cup host at Euro 2016 - South China Morning Post
Across Harvard, art you can touch - Harvard Gazette
Elizabeth Shackelford: An indefensible defense budget proposal and what it portends for our nation - Chicago Tribune
Cormac McCarthy’s New Novel: Two Lives, Two Ways of Seeing (Published 2022) - The New York Times
London Grammar: Truth Is a Beautiful Thing review – glacial and portentous - The Guardian
HP's 4K Omen 17 has good gaming graphics at a great price - CNET
What PJ Harvey’s Portentous New Songs Tell Us About Her Much-anticipated Album - NME
Roseanne Barr Tells Us Nothing About America - Politico
A Portentous Year - Foreign Affairs
In Sleepy Parma. A Fifth Centenary portentous, and silent. - Finestre sull'Arte
'The First' Is a Dazzling, Portentous Space Drama - The Atlantic
Opinion | The Furor Over Will Smith’s Slap (Published 2022) - The New York Times
Mikhail Gorbachev: world on brink of new cold war over Ukraine - The Guardian
King Lear at the Almeida Theatre is stylish but portentous - The i Paper
Salomé review – Yaël Farber's portentous take on the myth is a headache - The Guardian
Fathers and Daughters: A portentous and absurdly schmaltzy melodrama - The Independent
Portia Coughlan review: A portentous but unsatisfying tale of a woman hell-bent on self-destruction - The Independent
Foreboding Portentous Events - Modern Ghana
Portentous Question - Modern Ghana
Six New Banners for The Dark Knight Rises are Portentous and Rabble-rousing - HeyUGuys
Everyone has a different definition of fun in a portentous White Lotus - A.V. Club
Flash-Back: A portentous picture - Cinema Express
Bound By Flame gets a launch trailer full of fighting and portentous dialogue - PC Gamer
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - review: 'Andy Serkis and his fellow - London Evening Standard
Mangled Revelations: 'Apocalypse,' at Last - The Washington Post
The Good, Bad and Portentous: Narendra Modi's five-year report card, and how this compares to Mrs Indira Gandhi - dailyo.in
Booker Prize 2002 - BBC
A NEW NOVEL BY ALDOUS HUXLEY; His "Eyeless in Gaza" Is Important and Portentous Fiction EYELESS IN GAZA. By Aldous Huxley. 620 pp. New York: Harper & Brothers. $2.50. Aldous Huxley's New Novel (Published 1936) - The New York Times
The model secondary schools of Governor Amaechi: a portentous conversation at Eleme - The Nation Newspaper
Berlin Station exclusive: Rafa’s portentous brunch with Romanov Platov - Monsters and Critics
Foreign Language Equivalents
Foreign Language Equivalents of 'portentous'
Language Equivalent   Language Equivalent
French    Spanish
Misspellings - Typos
poryentous,   portetous,   portebtous,   porteentous,   pprtentous,   portentuos,   portentouss,   oortentous,   potentous,   prtentous,   ortentous,   [ortentous,   portentoys,   porttentous,   portenous,   pportentous,   portenrous,   portentpus,   portenttous,   porentous,   portnetous,   portentou,   pottentous,   pertentous,   portwntous,   poortentous,   portetnous,   poetentous,   portentus,   oprtentous,   pirtentous,   porrentous,   portentosu,   portenyous,   portentoua,   poretntous,   portenntous,   portentius,   portemtous,   porrtentous,   portenotus,   portentoous,   portrntous,   potrentous,   protentous,   portntous,   portentouus,   portentois,   portentoud,   portentos
Words Starting with Letter - 'A'
a a battery a billion
a bit a bit much a capella singing
a cappella singing a couple of a few
a fortiori a good deal a great deal
a horizon a hundred a hundred and one
a hundred thousand a hundred times a kempis
a la carte a la mode a level
a little a lot a million
Go to Page 1              Go to Page 2 »   
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z