Portentously

//pɔː(ɹ)ˈtɛn.təs.li// adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In an ominous manner.

    "The cold light of the moon touched every face with unnatural paleness; and the silence was unbroken and portentously profound."

  2. 2
    In a pompous manner.
Adverb
  1. 1
    in a portentous manner wordnet

Synonyms

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ominously

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"There have been moments during the last ten years when I have fell so portentously old, so fagged and finished, that I should have taken as a very bad joke any intimation that this present sense of juvenility was still in store for me."

Etymology

From portentous + -ly.

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