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Meanings of portentous in inglés
Synonyms
Examples for "pompous"
Examples for "pompous"
1
Its capital runs into millions; its prospectuses are pompous; its pay-roll mysterious.
2
Many say his at times schoolmasterly manner of explaining issues sounds pompous.
3
The pompous collaborator stepped forward, and Kira realized her opportunity had come.
4
The younger man ignored the pompous tone of this speech; he nodded.
5
The heavy, pompous clouds were floating in the sky over their heads.
1
But many others felt the new year holiday saga had been overblown.
2
A sizable minority of Americans continue to think coronavirus concerns are overblown.
3
But McGregor said all the concern about dangers proved to be overblown.
4
The collage effect is brilliantly achieved technically but at times seems overblown.
5
In other words, they say fears of a skills shortage are overblown.
1
M. Edgeworth put on his pontifical robes, and began to celebrate mass.
2
Expenditure, always charming, becomes under these circumstances a sacred and pontifical act.
3
I noted it, I think, in the case of the pontifical feminine dress.
4
They passed between the pontifical guards, who gave the priest the military salute.
5
A pontifical and warlike nature, a singular thing in a youth.
1
It was grandiloquent, and it often took long to reach the point.
2
He preferred, in his grandiloquent way, to call a spade a spade.
3
The image suggests a grandiloquent eccentric, a man engaged in endearing folly.
4
He made her a grandiloquent bow and sat down at his desk.
5
They say that he lacked inspiration, and was vulgar, bombastic, and grandiloquent.
Usage of portentous in inglés
1
But it was a portentous moment in Irish commercial and social history.
2
The political aspects of the times were now portentous in the extreme.
3
The situations of the principal powers of Europe are singular and portentous.
4
But there is something portentous in the change in Chichester, said Malling.
5
Such was the matter-of-fact manner in which the portentous news was announced.
6
Tea was brought in by portentous, powdered footmen in scarlet and gold.
7
That would be the most portentous, the most awe-inspiring event in history.
8
The portentous tone of the Frenchman's words was born of bitter experience.
9
Perhaps because I'm more portentous than they are, she said, and smiled.
10
The dinner had portentous suggestiveness; the Leidchardt'stonians were at first rather difficult.
11
Anthony Hopkin's Odin also returns to deliver yet more portentous fatherly wisdom.
12
Black clouds hung in huge, portentous masses over, the vault of heaven.
13
There was something heavy, portentous, in the air of this June evening.
14
The amount of reading that has gone to it is almost portentous.
15
The opening is portentous and soon becomes a driving whirlwind of tone.
16
This is true, and it is what makes the present situation portentous.
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Portentous through the time
Portentous across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common