portentous

Significat (Anglès)

1. Of momentous or ominous significance.
2. Ominously prophetic.
3. Puffed up with vanity.

Conceptes

terrible

temible

paorós

colpidor

horrorós

altiloqüent

inflat

altisonant

ampul·lós

campanut

grandil·loqüent

pompós

Sinònims

pompous

foreboding

inauspicious

prodigious

ominous

ill-omened

pontifical

pretentious

fateful

overblown

grandiloquent

sinister

pessimistic

significant

swanky

uncommon

unlucky

unusual

sinistrous

frightsome

awful

sucktastic

baleful

black

dreadful

extraordinary

fearsome

formidable

godforsaken

grandiose

horrendous

horrible

oracular

Traduccions

pomposo

fatidico

solenne

onheilspellend

unheilvoll

aciago

δυσοίωνος

pompeux

fürchtete

horrend

fürchterlich

schauderhaft

schrecklich

entsetzlich

hochtrabend

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/pɔː(ɹ)ˈtɛntəs/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Of multiple origins:
* Borrowed from Latin portentōsus, from portentus (“predicted”) + -ōsus. Compare earlier portentuous (via Middle English from Latin portentuōsus). By surface analysis, portent + -ous.
* Borrowed from French portentueux