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:
- chill
- funereal
- discouraging
- dim
- unlucky
- miserable
- wretched
- cheerless
- dreich
- elegiacal
- drear
- lonesome
- troubled
- glum
- disheartening
- hopeless
- disconsolate
- tenebrous
- dreary
- unfavorable
- elegiac
- malign
- cold
- dismal
- plutonian
- morose
- evil
- forlorn
- cloudy
- comfortless
- unpropitious
- malignant
- sepulchral
- lugubrious
- unpromising
- gloomy
- morbid
- saturnine
- sunless
- godforsaken
- sullen
- sombre
- cimmerian
Antonyms:
FAQs About the word portentously
in a portentous manner
ominous, sinister, menacing, murky, ill-boding, ill, depressive, grey, dire, desolate
encouraging, prosperous, unthreatening, hopeful, golden, unthreatening, auspicious, golden, promising, 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.
