Portentous is valid Scrabble Word

Is portentous a scrabble word?
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10 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for PORTENTOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:

of, relating to, or constituting a portent
of or like a portent; of momentous significance
done in a pompously or overly solemn manner so as to impress
Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreshadowing, esp. foreshadowing ill; ominous.
Hence: Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; dreadful; as, a beast of portentous size.
of momentous or ominous significance
ominously prophetic
puffed up with vanity

Words related to PORTENTOUS

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Words that contain PORTENTOUS

portentously17 portentousness16 portentousnesse17 portentousnesses18

How to use PORTENTOUS in a sentence

He seemed suddenly to increase in size, to become more menacing, portentous.
No sound was heard from even Brom, during these portentous movements, until Kirby discharged his piece, with the same want of success as before.
Danger there was, no doubt, danger to life, but it never so much as thrust its head out of that portentous hillside.
He was arrayed as for the Sabbath, a portentous figure in frock coat and gray trousers.
Black clouds hung in huge, portentous masses over, the vault of heaven.
No softness of speech will disguise the portentous differences between those who admit a supernatural revelation and those who deny it.
In the single year of 1897 it reached the portentous sum of 157,000,000 pounds.
In the portentous struggle of the two Powers for the supremacy, a struggle which inflicted heavy losses on the German Empire, the Imperial cause was worsted.
Benham did not speak until just after they turned the first corner, and then something portentous happened, considering the precipitous position of the road they were upon.
Oftentimes the desire itself is extinguished in those who ought to cherish it most, by the fear of meeting with something portentous or dangerous.

In this flood of bright and portentous mist the stranger still floated, though there were moments when his faint and fanciful outlines seemed to be melting into thin air.
The pride that was his now in being the official herald of portentous news was overcast by an evident sorrow.
The political aspects of the times were now portentous in the extreme.
Yet somehow the Century of early times impresses newer generations as having been tremendously portentous and dignified.
Coming home after so long, coming home, moreover, with a meaning portentous beyond the ordinary attached to the act, had excited Ishmael unknown to himself.
It seemed to me somewhat portentous too that His Majesty was so ready to see us, instead of mocking at the whole tale at once.
Something portentous was about to happen, or had happened.
A lurid light filled the heavens and shone on the sea, and in the brightness of it the gods looked pale and sad, and the circle of giants grew darker and more portentous.
The depression was in the first moment gloomy and portentous.
A portentous clash of dominant personalities that form the essence of the play are necessarily touched upon but briefly in the short space of four acts.
The portentous work was published in the autumn of 1774, but the form in which we now have it belongs to a later date.
Brief as it was, it has been to me the most portentous period of my existence.
There was something portentous in the careless way he sang them.
He ought to stretch out his hands to his mother and to look as if he understood the portentous words which foretold his destiny.
His bustling activity at this trying time was indeed portentous, and at last took the form of arresting the unfortunate Dr.
Waking, I walked arm-in-arm with a clown, and cracked a portentous whip to the brave music of a band.
In that state of mind the loss of the Guerriere assumed portentous dimensions.
The improvement, however, was fraught with a portentous circumstance.
And, to give the whole a sort of portentous air of labor and information, the table of the House of Commons is swept into this grand reservoir of politics.
Did Laura note any of the portentous glances, those exchanged between the singer and Cathewe and Breitmann? Perhaps.
Recovering himself, with a stern and portentous silence, he jumped out of bed and drew on his doublet and hose.
His presence was the signal for stolen looks and portentous whispers.

Similar words containing PORTENTOU without suffix s

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