portentous
portentous adj
L. portentÅsus < portentum, sign, omen, monster, marvelous tale.
- Foreboding; prophetic; [fig.] secretive; implied; implicit; unspoken.
- Inevitable; impending; imminent; destined; pre-determined.
- Enormous; immense; monstrous; awful.
- Strange; unusual; peculiar; queer; curious; remarkable; extraordinary; amazing; shocking; appalling; dismaying; disconcerting.
portentous [-ly] adv
see portentous.
- Ominously; disturbingly; frighteningly; dreadfully; chillingly; in a terrifying manner.
- Suspensefully; in a manner causing pleasurable tension; in a way calculated to arouse intense curiosity.