portentously Sentence Examples
- The storm clouds gathered portentously, hinting at an imminent downpour.
- The professor's voice droned portentously, casting a pall of boredom over the lecture hall.
- The lottery results were announced portentously, leaving the audience in suspense.
- The doctor's prognosis was delivered portentously, signaling a grave diagnosis.
- The silence stretched portentously, creating an atmosphere of unease.
- The child's intuition was surprisingly portentous, foretelling an unforeseen event.
- The bird's flight pattern seemed portentous, suggesting a change in the weather.
- The politician's speech was rife with portentous rhetoric, aimed at swaying the hearts of his constituents.
- The sudden appearance of a black cat was interpreted portentously as a harbinger of bad luck.
- The clock ticked portentously, marking the inexorable passage of time.
portentously Meaning
portentously (r)
in a portentous manner
Synonyms & Antonyms of portentously
Synonyms:
- morose
- malign
- miserable
- sullen
- elegiac
- comfortless
- gloomy
- glum
- lonesome
- lugubrious
- unpromising
- unfavorable
- chill
- funereal
- disheartening
- dreich
- troubled
- wretched
- forlorn
- elegiacal
- cold
- hopeless
- unlucky
- unpropitious
- cimmerian
- sombre
- sepulchral
- tenebrous
- dismal
- plutonian
- morbid
- discouraging
- saturnine
- dim
- evil
- disconsolate
- malignant
- drear
- dreary
- cloudy
- sunless
- cheerless
- godforsaken
Antonyms:
FAQs About the word portentously
in a portentous manner
sinister,ominous, menacing, inauspicious, desolate, direful, grey, ill-boding, ill, darkening
prosperous, benign, prosperous, hopeful, favorable, promising, encouraging, hopeful, unthreatening, benign
The storm clouds gathered portentously, hinting at an imminent downpour.
The professor's voice droned portentously, casting a pall of boredom over the lecture hall.
The lottery results were announced portentously, leaving the audience in suspense.
The doctor's prognosis was delivered portentously, signaling a grave diagnosis.
