Definition of portentous

Scrabble & Words with friends points

• portentous is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 12
• portentous is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 12
• portentous is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 15

Definition of portentous

• ominously prophetic (adjective)

  Synonyms

  1. fateful
  2. foreboding
• puffed up with vanity (adjective)

  Synonyms

  1. grandiloquent
  2. overblown
  3. pompous
  4. pontifical
• of momentous or ominous significance (adjective)

  Examples

  1. such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity

  Synonyms

  1. prodigious

See definition of portentous in Merriam Webster