Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - portentous
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Portentous
portentous
1. If someone’s way of speaking, writing, or behaving is portentous, they speak, write, or behave more seriously than necessary because they want to impress other people. (FORMAL) There was nothing portentous or solemn about him. He was bubbling with humour. ...portentous prose. = pompous ADJ c darkgreen]disapproval • portentously ‘The difference is,’ he said portentously, ‘you are Anglo-Saxons, we are Latins.’ ADV: usu ADV with v 2. Something that is portentous is important in indicating or affecting future events. (FORMAL) In social politics, too, the city’s contribution to 20th century thought and culture was no less portentous... ADJ
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adjective Date: 15th century 1. of, relating to, or constituting a portent suspense, ~ foreshadowing, hints of sinister and violent mysteries — Francine Prose 2. eliciting amazement or wonder ; prodigious 3. a. being a grave or serious matter ~ decisions b. self-consciously solemn or important ; pompous ~ declamation unsalted by the least trace of humor — W. H. Pritchard c. ponderously excessive that discipline's overwrought, ~ phrases — R. M. Coles Synonyms: see ominous • ~ly adverb • ~ness noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. 1 like or serving as a portent. 2 pompously solemn. Derivatives portentously adv. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. зловещий, предвещающий дурное portentous events —- зловещие события 2. необыкновенный, необычайный; удивительный portentous abilities —- удивительные (необыкновенные) способности of portentous size —- необыкновенных размеров 3. важный, напыщенный in a portentous manner —- важно, с напыщенным видом portentous silence —- торжественное молчание ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~ adj 1 literary events that are portentous are very important, especially because they show that something unpleasant is going to happen (portentous events that boded ill) 2 trying to appear important and serious (The book is portentous and badly edited.) - portentously adv - portentousness n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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