390 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ pɔːtˈɛntəs], [ pɔːtˈɛntəs], [ p_ɔː_t_ˈɛ_n_t_ə_s]

Similar words for portentous:

• all (adjective)
• apocalyptical (adjective)
• dangerous (adjective)
• dire (adjective)
• fateful (adjective)
• frightful/frightening (adjective)
• fustian (adjective)
• hellfire (adjective)
• ominous (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• pompous (adjective)
• portentous (adjective)
• puffed-up (adjective)
• sinister (adjective)
• solemn (adjective)
• threatening (adjective)
• unusual (adjective)
• weighty (adjective)
• important (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• portentous (noun)
• other synonyms
• sinister

Synonyms for Portentous:

• adj.

  • all (adjective)
  • portentous.
  • apocalyptical (adjective)
  • more revelational,
  • most revelational,
  • more revelatory,
  • revelatory,
  • revelational,
  • most revelatory.
  • dangerous (adjective)
  • unsafe,
  • wicked,
  • delicate,
  • terrible,
  • fatal,
  • shaky,
  • unhealthy,
  • insecure,
  • urgent,
  • risky,
  • Viperous,
  • perilous,
  • touchy,
  • Jeopardous,
  • serious,
  • queasy,
  • dynamite,
  • unstable,
  • mortal,
  • ticklish,
  • pressing,
  • vulnerable,
  • serpentine,
  • critical,
  • chancy,
  • speculative,
  • deadly,
  • nasty,
  • breakneck,
  • thorny,
  • parlous,
  • formidable,
  • menacing,
  • precarious,
  • touch and go,
  • impregnable,
  • loaded,
  • dangersome,
  • touch-and-go,
  • exposed,
  • on collision course,
  • bad,
  • treacherous,
  • malignant.
  • dire (adjective)
  • frightful,
  • ugly,
  • Oppressing,
  • distressing,
  • catastrophic,
  • afflictive,
  • gloomy,
  • horrible,
  • appalling,
  • grim,
  • scowling,
  • dreadful,
  • unfortunate,
  • heartbreaking,
  • fearful,
  • regrettable,
  • depressing,
  • deplorable,
  • terrific,
  • black,
  • horrid,
  • fierce,
  • cruel,
  • woeful,
  • calamitous,
  • cataclysmic,
  • grievous,
  • awful,
  • dismal,
  • redoubtable,
  • lamentable,
  • disastrous,
  • shocking.
  • fateful (adjective)
  • decisive,
  • determinative,
  • acute,
  • inauspicious,
  • Resultful,
  • conclusive,
  • Doomful,
  • direful,
  • eventful.
  • frightful/frightening (adjective)
  • hairy,
  • chilling,
  • disquieting,
  • inconceivable,
  • dread,
  • unnerving,
  • repellent,
  • hideous,
  • hair-raising,
  • atrocious,
  • terrifying,
  • petrifying,
  • macabre,
  • morbid,
  • spooky,
  • horrifying,
  • awesome,
  • ghastly,
  • intimidating,
  • lurid,
  • gruesome,
  • dismaying,
  • harrowing,
  • daunting.
  • fustian (adjective)
  • pretentious,
  • ranting,
  • boastful,
  • vainglorious,
  • high and mighty,
  • ostentatious,
  • Flaunting,
  • self-centered,
  • self-important.
  • hellfire (adjective)
  • fire-and-brimstone.
  • ominous (adjective)
  • inhospitable,
  • forbidding,
  • unfriendly,
  • malign,
  • lowering,
  • hostile,
  • Presaging,
  • clouded,
  • dark,
  • unpropitious,
  • prescient,
  • baleful,
  • minatory.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • momentous,
  • no fooling,
  • malefic,
  • unspeakable,
  • puffed-up,
  • ominous,
  • dangerous,
  • premonitory,
  • puffed up,
  • highfaluting,
  • grabber,
  • puffy,
  • fateful,
  • pompous,
  • Ill-boding,
  • horrendous,
  • prophetic,
  • life and death,
  • weighty,
  • fearsome,
  • fustian,
  • extraordinary,
  • sinister,
  • prognostic,
  • ruinous,
  • blackhearted,
  • doomed,
  • oracular,
  • traumatic,
  • grisly,
  • unpromising,
  • malificent,
  • no nonsense,
  • Precursive,
  • cold sober,
  • dire,
  • admonishing,
  • stuck up,
  • threatening,
  • solemn.
  • pompous (adjective)
  • flowery,
  • inflated,
  • affected,
  • windy,
  • orotund,
  • sonorous,
  • magisterial,
  • narcissistic,
  • showy,
  • rhetorical,
  • magniloquent,
  • flatulent,
  • presumptuous,
  • selfish,
  • turgid,
  • grandiose,
  • bloated,
  • stuck-up.
  • portentous (adjective)
  • exhilarating,
  • suggestive,
  • ill-fated,
  • alarming,
  • thrilling,
  • haunting,
  • inspiring,
  • intriguing,
  • Augural,
  • fated,
  • destined,
  • impending.
  • puffed-up (adjective)
  • hoity toity,
  • puffedup,
  • hoitytoity.
  • sinister (adjective)
  • deleterious,
  • adverse,
  • pernicious,
  • perverse,
  • hurtful,
  • unfavorable,
  • dishonest,
  • evil,
  • malevolent,
  • obnoxious,
  • harmful,
  • poisonous,
  • corrupt,
  • injurious,
  • mischievous.
  • solemn (adjective)
  • in-tenser,
  • in tenser,
  • more brooding,
  • matter life and death,
  • in-tensest,
  • in-tense,
  • nononsense,
  • de-liberate,
  • in tense,
  • most brooding,
  • matter of life death,
  • de liberate,
  • matter life death.
  • threatening (adjective)
  • overhanging,
  • Intimidatory,
  • loury,
  • over hanging,
  • Impendent,
  • Lowery,
  • comminatory,
  • minacious.
  • unusual (adjective)
  • unusual,
  • rare.
  • weighty (adjective)
  • most underlined,
  • under lined,
  • more underlined,
  • life death,
  • under-lined.

• n.

  •
  • forewarned is forearmed,
  • expert.
  •
  • chatty,
  • circuitous,
  • conversational,
  • declamatory,
  • clean,
  • articulate,
  • economical,
  • diffuse,
  • discursive,
  • crisp.
  •
  • grave,
  • warn,
  • luck.
  • important (noun)
  • important.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • crucial,
  • swollen head,
  • condescend,
  • uppity,
  • talk,
  • lord,
  • narcissist,
  • cut,
  • smugly,
  • hifalutin,
  • disrespect,
  • highfalutin,
  • infra dig,
  • pontifical,
  • superior,
  • astounding,
  • own,
  • deign,
  • cocksure,
  • egocentric,
  • revolve,
  • thumb,
  • dog,
  • vain,
  • sententious,
  • lofty,
  • cock of the walk,
  • monstrous,
  • preen,
  • boor,
  • smarty-pants,
  • stand,
  • up,
  • big,
  • say,
  • condescending,
  • delusion,
  • supercilious,
  • brash,
  • self-appointed,
  • officious,
  • self-satisfied,
  • smug,
  • clever,
  • foreboding,
  • overweening,
  • lucifer,
  • snook,
  • grandiloquent,
  • immodest,
  • flatter,
  • conceited,
  • bigheadedness,
  • high,
  • significant,
  • egoistic,
  • bombastic,
  • imperious,
  • smart mouth,
  • amazing,
  • lordly,
  • de haut en bas,
  • snotty,
  • clever-clever,
  • dignity,
  • swanky,
  • opinionated,
  • sniff,
  • smart alec,
  • bigheaded,
  • overbearing,
  • above,
  • proudly,
  • tin god,
  • know-all,
  • proud,
  • overblown,
  • self-opinionated,
  • patronizing,
  • disdain,
  • remarkable,
  • toffee-nosed,
  • self-importance,
  • know-it-all,
  • phenomenal,
  • snooty,
  • jumped-up,
  • cocky,
  • throw,
  • consequential,
  • hoity-toity,
  • cock,
  • prodigious,
  • patronize,
  • bumptious,
  • arrogant,
  • fancy,
  • haughty,
  • know,
  • full,
  • egotistic,
  • high-flown,
  • nose,
  • air.
  • portentous (noun)
  • prophetical.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • apocalyptic,
  • apocalyptical,
  • consultative,
  • fire and brimstone,
  • cautionary,
  • advisory,
  • Consulting,
  • hellfire,
  • warning,
  • deterrent.
  •
  • baneful.
  •
  • unlucky.
  • sinister
  • monitory.