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foreboding, ominous, or threatening
portentous, prodigious(adj)of momentous or ominous significance
"such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision"
fateful, foreboding(a), portentous(adj)ominously prophetic
grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous(adj)puffed up with vanity
"a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to comean eerie and portentous stillness hung over the camp the night before the battle
causing wonder or astonishmentin 1969 people regarded the first landing on the moon as a truly portentous event
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