参考词典中portentous的常规释义:
基本释义
- a. 前兆的,不吉的,可惊的,奇怪的,自大的
词形变化
- 名 词:por·ten'tous·ness副 词:por·ten'tous·ly
英英解释
3个形容词解释
- of momentous or ominous significance
[同] portentous, prodigious
[例]- such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity
- a prodigious vision
- ominously prophetic
[同] fateful, foreboding, portentous
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- puffed up with vanity
[同] grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous
[例]- a grandiloquent and boastful manner
- overblown oratory
- a pompous speech
- pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey
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