All 4 Uses
portentous
in
A Room With A View
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- Meaningless at first, it gradually became menacing, obnoxious, portentous with evil.†
Chpt 1 *
- To one who loves the Florence of Dante and Savonarola there is something portentous in such desecration—portentous and humiliating.†
Chpt 5
- To one who loves the Florence of Dante and Savonarola there is something portentous in such desecration—portentous and humiliating.†
Chpt 5
- Seeing that her thoughts were elsewhere, Cecil bent towards Lucy and said: "To me it seemed perfectly appalling, disastrous, portentous."†
Chpt 9
Definitions:
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(1)
(portentous) very important; or indicating something important in the future -- often something that is threatening
or:
acting overly important or serious - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)