Sarah Ashlee's Word of the Day
Just because it's a newly discovered, fantastic word...one worth knowing.
Portentous (por-TEN-tus)
adjective
1. Foreboding; foreshadowing, especially foreshadowing ill; ominous.
2. Marvelous; prodigious; wonderful; as, a beast of portentous size.
3. Pompous.
5 comments:
Those seem to be 3 disparate definitions! (I love alliteration :)
Could you please use it in a sentence for us?
Haha - I am a fan of alliteration as well! Way to go! :)
Bobuster - Here you go:
"A piercing first novel...lyrical and portentous."
Figure out what review that's from and you get brownie points!! :-)
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Review written by Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times!
Whoo Whoo! Gold star to you for the day! :-)
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