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portentous

/pɔɹˈtɛntəs/ · 10 letters · 8 distinct letters

  1. adjective

    of momentous or ominous significance;, Herman Melville

    such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity

  2. adjective

    ominously prophetic

  3. adjective

    puffed up with vanity; ; ; ;, Newsweek

    a grandiloquent and boastful manner

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