portentous
英 [pɔː'tentəs]
美[pɔr'tɛntəs]
- adj. 不祥的；预兆的；令人惊讶的
英英释意
- 1. of momentous or ominous significance;
- "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville
- "a prodigious vision"
- 2. of ominous significance
- 3. puffed up with vanity;
- "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"
- "overblown oratory"
- "a pompous speech"
- "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
