单词 | portentous |
释义 | por·ten·tous 1. < the events under discussion are portentous — Philip Hamburger > 2. < the extraordinary old man gave him a second portentous wink — J.C.Powys > 3. < a voice that manages to be both cozy and portentous — Gilbert Seldes > < regarded all these things with a portentous solemnity — H.G.Wells > < the style is so portentous that one expects up to the last paragraph that something of moment is about to be revealed — Dachine Rainer > Synonyms: see ominous |
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