|
portentous 音標拼音: [pɔrt'ɛntəs] a. 前兆的,不吉的,可驚的,奇怪的,自大的 前兆的,不吉的,可驚的,奇怪的,自大的 portentous adj 1: of momentous or ominous significance; " such a portentous... monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; " a prodigious vision" [ synonym: { portentous}, { prodigious}] 2: ominously prophetic [ synonym: { fateful}, { foreboding( a)}, { portentous}] 3: puffed up with vanity; " a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; " overblown oratory"; " a pompous speech"; " pseudo- scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek [ synonym: { grandiloquent}, { overblown}, { pompous}, { pontifical}, { portentous}] Portentous \ Por* tent" ous\, a. [ L. portentosus.] 1. Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreshadowing, esp. foreshadowing ill; ominous. [ 1913 Webster] For, I believe, they are portentous things. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Victories of strange and almost portentous splendor. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Hence: Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; dreadful; as, a beast of portentous size. -- Roscommon. [ 1913 Webster] -- { Por* tent" ous* ly}, adv. -- { Por* tent" ous* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 86 Moby Thesaurus words for " portentous": alarming, amazing, apocalyptic, astonishing, astounding, awe- inspiring, awesome, bad, baleful, baneful, black, bodeful, boding, dark, dire, doomful, dreary, earnest, evil, evil- starred, exceptional, extraordinary, fabulous, fantastic, fatal, fateful, foreboding, forerunning, forewarning, formidable, gloomy, grave, heavy, ill, ill- boding, ill- fated, ill- omened, ill- starred, imposing, inauspicious, indescribable, ineffable, legendary, lowering, marvelous, menacing, mind- boggling, miraculous, momentous, mythical, noteworthy, of evil portent, ominous, phenomenal, portending, precautional, precautionary, precursive, precursory, premonitory, prodigious, prodromal, prodromic, remarkable, serious, sinister, sober, solemn, somber, star- crossed, stupefying, stupendous, threatening, unexampled, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unparalleled, unprecedented, unpromising, unpropitious, unspeakable, untoward, weighty, wonderful, wondrous
|
安裝中文字典英文字典查詢工具!
中文字典英文字典工具:
英文字典中文字典相關資料:
|