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portentous
adjective
puffed up with vanity
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pɔː(ɹ)ˈtɛntəs
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adjective
puffed up with vanity
“a grandiloquent and boastful manner”
adjective
ominously prophetic
adjective
of momentous or ominous significance
“{'source': 'Herman Melville', 'text': 'such a portentous … monster raised all my curiosity'}”
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a grandiloquent and boastful manner
overblown oratory
a pompous speech
{'source': 'Newsweek', 'text': 'pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey'}
{'source': 'Herman Melville', 'text': 'such a portentous … monster raised all my curiosity'}
a prodigious vision
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