portentous

Signification (Anglais)

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

Concepts

pompeux

atroce

désastreux

effrayant

emphatique

épouvantable

fatidique

horrible

redoutable

sinistre

solennel

terrible

affreux

awful

Synonymes

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

Traductions

pomposo

δυσοίωνος

solenne

onheilspellend

aciago

fatidico

unheilvoll

horrorós

colpidor

terrible

campanut

grandil·loqüent

pompós

entsetzlich

ampul·lós

Prononcé comme (IPA)

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Étymologie (Anglais)

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