All portentous synonyms
por·ten·tous
P p adj portentous
- malefic — productive of evil; malign; doing harm; baneful: a malefic spell.
- minacious — menacing; threatening.
- lowery — dark and gloomy; threatening: a lowery sky.
- fire-and-brimstone — threatening punishment in the hereafter: a fire-and-brimstone sermon.
- highfaluting — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
- fateful — having momentous significance or consequences; decisively important; portentous: a fateful meeting between the leaders of the two countries.
- intimidatory — to make timid; fill with fear.
- minatory — menacing; threatening.
- doomful — foreshadowing doom; portentously direful; ominous.
- dangerous — If something is dangerous, it is able or likely to hurt or harm you.
- grabber — a person or thing that grabs.
- hellfire — the fire of hell.
- impendent — impending.
- delphian — a native or inhabitant of Delphi.
- life and death — ending with the death or possible death of one of the participants; crucially important: The cobra was engaged in a life-and-death struggle with the mongoose.
- dire — causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible: a dire calamity.
- loury — lowery.
- apocalyptical — of or like an apocalypse; affording a revelation or prophecy.
- fustian — a stout fabric of cotton and flax.
adjective portentous
- weighty — having considerable weight; heavy; ponderous: a weighty bundle.
- ominous — portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious: an ominous bank of dark clouds.
- doomy — fate or destiny, especially adverse fate; unavoidable ill fortune: In exile and poverty, he met his doom.
- comminatory — Threatening, punitive, or vengeful.
- oracular — of the nature of, resembling, or suggesting an oracle: an oracular response.
- jeopardous — perilous; dangerous; hazardous; risky.