Portentously

/pɔː(ɹ)ˈtɛn.təs.li/

Synonyms for "portentously" (6 found)

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Closest matches (2)

Adverb(2 words)

Strong matches (1)

Adverb(1 words)

Related words (3)

Related word relations

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More general

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manner adverb

More specific

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Collocations

5 entries
portentously announcedportentously dramaticportentously foreshadowedportentously intonedportentously solemn

Inflections

2 entries
more portentouslymost portentously

Derivations

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Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

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.

Source: tatoeba (11566377)

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

Source: wiktionary

At that moment a long, scraggy individual in a checked suit poked his head into the bar, looked around portentously, whistled mysteriously to my informant, and jerked his thumb and head in the direction of the door.

Source: wiktionary

Shirky ends the story of the lost Sidekick by asking, portentously, “What happens next?”—no doubt imagining future waves of digital protesters.

Source: wiktionary

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