portentous Definition

grandiloquent, foreboding, prophetic, pompous, pretentious, prophetical, pontifical, fateful, overblown, prodigious, important, significant, ominous, lugubrious, ponderous, mournful, melodramatic, minatory, baleful, doleful, elegiac, eerie, funereal, grandiose, evocative, premonitory, melancholy, sonorous, bombastic, poignant, apocalyptic, melancholic, aphoristic, poetic, overdetermined, sophoclean, sententious, overfamiliar, bathetic, florid, declamatory, leaden, bodeful, dolorous, orotund, tenebrous, metaphoric, overwrought, admonitory, pantomimic, incantatory, plangent, banal, unpoetic, nabokovian, oracular, mawkish, jaunty, revelatory, hackneyed, hieratic, allegorical, droll, filmic, unsubtle, cryptic, dissonant, ruminative, disquieting, dostoevskian, beethovenian, stentorian, resonant, epochal, literal, discordant, epiphanic, stagy, digressive, otiose, expository, easeful, beguiling, toneless, prosaic, somnambulistic, climactic, oneiric, hortatory, wordier, affectless, histrionic, maudlin, songlike, discursive, parodic, polytonal, lachrymose, ludic, sidelong,