portentoso : Binisaya - Cebuano to English Dictionary and Thesaurus.

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Word:

portentoso [pur.tin.tú.su.] :

portentous (adj.)
[ Etymology: Spanish: portentoso: portentous ]

Derivatives of portentoso

Glosses:

portentous
adj.	1. portentous, prodigious	of momentous or ominous significance.; "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"; "a prodigious vision"
	~ significant, important	important in effect or meaning.; "a significant change in tax laws"; "a significant change in the Constitution"; "a significant contribution"; "significant details"; "statistically significant"
adj.	2. fateful, foreboding, portentous	ominously prophetic.
	~ prophetic, prophetical	foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention.; "prophetic writings"; "prophetic powers"; "words that proved prophetic"
adj.	3. grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous	puffed up with vanity.; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"
	~ pretentious	making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction.; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition"