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portentousadjective being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to comean eerie and portentous stillness hung over the camp the night before the battle baleful, dire, direful, doomy, foreboding, ill, ill-boding, inauspicious, menacing, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dim, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich(chiefly Scottish), elegiac(also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, gloomy, glum, godforsaken, gray(also grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, somber(or sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretcheddiscouraging, disheartening, hopeless, unfavorable, unpromising, unpropitiousill-fated, ill-starred, star-crossed, troubled, unfortunate, unluckyevil, malign, malignant unthreatening auspicious, benign, bright, encouraging, favorable, golden, heartening, hopeful, promising, propitious, prosperous causing wonder or astonishmentin 1969 people regarded the first landing on the moon as a truly portentous event amazing, astonishing, astounding, awesome, awful, eye-opening, fabulous, marvelous(or marvellous), miraculous, prodigious, staggering, stunning, stupendous, sublime, surprising, wonderful, wondrous incomprehensible, inconceivable, incredible, unbelievable, unimaginable, unthinkableextraordinary, phenomenal, rare, sensational, spectacularsingular, uncommon, unique, unusual, unwontedconspicuous, notable, noticeable, outstanding, remarkableimpressive, smashing, strikingmind-bending, mind-blowing, mind-bogglinganimating, energizing, enlightening, enlivening, exciting, galvanizing, invigorating, stimulatingalluring, attracting, attractive, beguiling, bewitching, captivating, charming, enchanting, entertaining, enthralling, fascinating, interesting unimpressive, uninspiring, unremarkableboring, dull, jading, monotonous, tedious, tiring, uninspired, uninteresting, wearisome, weary, wearyingcommon, customary, mundane, normal, ordinary, typical, unexceptional, usualdraining, enervating, exhausting, fatiguing, wearingdebilitating, enfeeblingdemoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting ominous, portentous, fateful mean having a menacing or threatening aspect.ominous implies having a menacing, alarming character foreshadowing evil or disaster.ominous rumblings from the volcano portentous suggests being frighteningly big or impressive but now seldom definitely connotes forewarning of calamity.an eerie and portentous stillness fateful suggests being of momentous or decisive importance.the fateful conference that led to war in the 15th century |