What is the meaning of portentous?

Of momentous or ominous significance.
- usage: "such a portentous... Monster raised all my curiosity- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision"
- synonyms: prodigious
Ominously prophetic.
- synonyms: fateful, foreboding
Puffed up with vanity."a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey- Newsweek
- synonyms: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical

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