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(satellite adjective) of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision" |
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Synonyms: prodigious |
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(satellite adjective) of ominous significance |
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Synonyms: fateful, foreboding |
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(satellite adjective) puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek |
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Synonyms: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical |
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