portentous

adj 1: of momentous or ominous significance; "such a

portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman

Melville; "a prodigious vision" [syn: {prodigious}]

2: of ominous significance [syn: {fateful}, {foreboding(a)}]

3: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful

manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech";

"pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"-

Newsweek [syn: {grandiloquent}, {overblown}, {pompous}, {pontifical}]