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Meaning of word portentous from English dictionary with examples, synonyms and antonyms.

Meaning : Of momentous or ominous significance.

Example : Such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity.
A prodigious vision.

Synonyms : prodigious

Meaning : Ominously prophetic.

Meaning : Puffed up with vanity.

Example : A grandiloquent and boastful manner.
Overblown oratory.
A pompous speech.
Pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey.

Synonyms : grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical

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Any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects. Some are domestic pests.

dispose (verb)
Give, sell, or transfer to another.

guff (noun)
Unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements).

demolish (verb)
Destroy completely.

with child (adjective)
In an advanced stage of pregnancy.

most (adjective)
(superlative of `many' used with count nouns and often preceded by `the') quantifier meaning the greatest in number.

telescope (verb)
Crush together or collapse.

blow up (verb)
Cause to burst with a violent release of energy.

precursor (noun)
A substance from which another substance is formed (especially by a metabolic reaction).

ordnance store (noun)
Military supplies.