Portentous
Crossword Clue and Answers
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We most recently saw this clue in Irish Independent - Simple.
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- Irish Independent - Simple - Wednesday, 17 Mar 2021
Crossword Answers
7 letters
FATEFUL
Ominously prophetic
OMINOUS
Presaging ill fortune; "ill omens"; "ill predictions"; "my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"- P.B.Shelley; "a dead and ominous silence prevailed"; "a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government"
POMPOUS
Puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
AWESOME
Inspiring awe or admiration or wonder; "New York is an amazing city"; "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight"; "the awesome complexity of the universe"; "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville; "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent"
8 letters
ORACULAR
Resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought; "the oracular sayings of Victorian poets"; "so enigmatic that priests might have to clarify it"; "an enigmatic smile"
9 letters
OVERBLOWN
Past the stage of full bloom; "overblown roses"
10 letters
PONTIFICAL
The vestments and other insignia of a pontiff (especially a bishop)
PRODIGIOUS
So great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe; "colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple"; "has a colossal nerve"; "a prodigious storm"; "a stupendous field of grass"; "stupendous demand"
FOREBODING
An unfavorable omen
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GRANDILOQUENT
Puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek