portentous Antonyms
Strongest:
Strong:
- ill-boding
- desolate
- inauspicious
- baleful
- somber
- doomy
- bleak
- depressive
- dire
- grey
- murky
- foreboding
- unfortunate
- direful
- dark
- threatening
- darkening
- ill
- lonely
- minatory
- black
- depressing
- gray
Weak:
- unpromising
- unlucky
- dismal
- lugubrious
- miserable
- disheartening
- wretched
- tenebrous
- plutonian
- malign
- dreich
- troubled
- godforsaken
- comfortless
- chill
- sullen
- unpropitious
- funereal
- hopeless
- dreary
- gloomy
- drear
- cold
- glum
- evil
- malignant
- disconsolate
- cimmerian
- morbid
- saturnine
- sunless
- lonesome
- sombre
- elegiac
- forlorn
- morose
- unfavorable
- cheerless
- discouraging
- dim
- sepulchral
- cloudy
- elegiacal
Meaning of portentous
portentous (s)
of momentous or ominous significance
ominously prophetic
puffed up with vanity
portentous Sentence Examples
- The thunderclap echoed through the valley, a portentous sign of an impending storm.
- The doctor's eyes held a portentous expression, hinting at grave news.
- The ominous clouds gathered on the horizon, a portentous omen of trouble to come.
- The silence in the room was deafening, its portentous weight suffocating.
- The flicker of the candle flame was interpreted as a portentous symbol of hope amidst despair.
- The howling wind seemed to whisper portentous secrets in the darkness.
- The old woman's gaze was intent and portentous, carrying an unspoken message.
- The sudden appearance of the comet was seen as a portentous sign of impending disaster.
- The ringing of bells carried a portentous tone, signaling a momentous event.
- The roar of the crowd was portentous, a thunderous outpouring of anticipation and awe.
FAQs About the word portentous
of momentous or ominous significance, ominously prophetic, puffed up with vanity
menacing, sinister,ominous, ill-boding, desolate, inauspicious, baleful, somber, doomy,bleak
golden, favorable,favorable, promising, bright, golden, unthreatening, prosperous, benign, encouraging
The thunderclap echoed through the valley, a portentous sign of an impending storm.
The doctor's eyes held a portentous expression, hinting at grave news.
The ominous clouds gathered on the horizon, a portentous omen of trouble to come.
The silence in the room was deafening, its portentous weight suffocating.
