portentous

  • (s) of momentous or ominous significance
    • "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville
    • a prodigious vision
    prodigious,
  • (s) ominously prophetic foreboding, fateful,
  • (s) puffed up with vanity
    • a grandiloquent and boastful manner
    • overblown oratory
    • a pompous speech
    • "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
    overblown, pompous, grandiloquent, pontifical,

Synonyms

prodigious foreboding fateful overblown pompous grandiloquent pontifical

Words of close approximity

portentously