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portentous

adjective

[L. portentosus.]

Ominous; foreshowing ill. Ignorance and superstition hold meteors to be portentous.

portentous

Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; in an ill sense. No beast of more portentous size, In the Hercynian forest lies.