Crossword-Solution: PORTENTOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Portentous | a. | Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreshadowing, esp. foreshadowing ill; ominous. |
| Portentous | a. | Hence: Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; dreadful; as, a beast of portentous size. |
We have 19 clues for the answer “PORTENTOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| of momentous or ominous significance | 1 answer |
| Ominously significant | 1 answer |
| Arousing amazement | 1 answer |
| DESERVING OF, OR AROUSING PITY | 10 answers |
| AROUSING TO ACTION OR REBELLION | 11 answers |
| prognosticating | 18 answers |
| prophesying | 20 answers |
| Overblown | 20 answers |
| soothsaying | 21 answers |
| sententious | 22 answers |
| Arousing | 41 answers |
| proclaiming | 41 answers |
| Fateful | 69 answers |
| threatening | 70 answers |
| Sinister | 74 answers |
| bewitched | 74 answers |
| Hostile | 79 answers |
| Amazing! | 80 answers |
| Ominous | 82 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PORTENTOUS (5)
Thou hast atchiev’d our libertie, confin’d Within Hell Gates till now, thou us impow’rd To fortifie thus farr, and overlay With this portentous Bridge the dark Abyss.
But scarce was this done ere the portentous strength of the Black Knight forced his way inward in despite of De Bracy and his followers.
Obviously the measurements of a single angle would no longer be sufficient under such portentous circumstances; one’s whole life would be taken up in feeling or surveying the perimeter of one’s acquaintances.
Surprising frankness had, as a general thing, struck Rowland as the key-note of her character, but she had more than once given him a suggestion of an unfathomable power of calculation, and her silence now had something which it is hardly extravagant to call portentous.
The stillness itself seemed a trifle portentous; he reflected however that he had no right to stand listening, and he made his way back to the salon.
Quotes with PORTENTOUS (3)
It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig. Lightly, lightly — it’s the best advice ever given me. When it comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic. No rhetoric, no tremolos, no self conscious persona putting o…
Spinoza formulated the profoundly important principle that *all determination is negation*. To determine a thing is to cut it off from some sphere of being and so to limit it. To define is to set boundaries. To say that a thing is green limits it by cutting it from the sphere of pink, blue, or other-coloured things. To say that it is good cuts it off from the sphere of evil. This limitation is the same as negation. To *affirm* that a thing is within certain limits is to *deny…
[R]eligion was the race's first (and worst) attempt to make sense of reality. It was the best the species could do at a time when we had no concept of physics, chemistry, biology or medicine. We did not know that we lived on a round planet, let alone that the said planet was in orbit in a minor and obscure solar system, which was also on the edge of an unimaginably vast cosmos that was exploding away from its original source of energy. We did not know that micro-organisms wer…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1987–2010).