portentous 的定义
- of the nature of a portent; momentous.
- ominously significant or indicative: a portentous defeat.
- marvelous; amazing; prodigious.
portentous 近义词
exciting; foreboding
更多portentous例句
- As such, there is a portentous quality here that can occasionally get in its own way.
- Little moments are portentous of grand sweeping changes, and big, dramatic moments are meaningless to all but the few involved.
- These portentous rumblings aside, no coherent position on ectogenesis has emerged so far within the pro-life movement.
- Ultimately, though, it is difficult to see the point of this rather portentous book.
- Behind these macho moves lie some pretty dramatic and portentous policy decisions.
- There was the most portentous picture of a Griffin on the first page, with verses below.
- Ripperda roused himself from his portentous trance, and arrayed his noble figure in the rugged habiliments of the muleteer.
- The Briton, holding the documents in a pudgy hand, looked at the swift-gestured director with portentous solemnity.
- Again my soul trembled with anguish, for that strange portentous word, 'death,' was ever written within me or without.
- The wedding is a portentous affair, lasting all day from early morning, and the bride and bridegroom remain in the house.