首页英语词典portentousportentous英英释意

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