portentous

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portentous
- IPA[pôrˈten(t)əs]
美式
- adj.
  
  of or like a portent；done in a pompously or overly solemn manner so as to impress
- 釋義
adj.
形容詞
1. of or like a portent the envelope and its portentous contents 同義詞 ominous, warning, foreshadowing, predictive, premonitory, ... 更多prognosticatory, momentous, fateful, threatening, menacing, foreboding, sinister, ill-omened, inauspicious, unpropitious, unpromising, gloomy, unfavorable
▪ done in a pompously or overly solemn manner so as to impress the author's portentous moralizings 同義詞 pompous, bombastic, self-important, pontifical, ponderous, ... 更多solemn, sonorous, grandiloquent, declamatory, overblown, overripe, inflated, rhetorical, oratorical
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portentous
IPA[pɔːˈtɛntəs]
英式
adj.
of or like a portent; of momentous significance: this portentous year in Canadian history
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