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(A portent is an omen. Portentous means ominous or forboding, and is often confused with pretentious, which means falsely or excessively arrogant or proud, as a braggart or aristocrat.)

"The dark skies were a portentous sign of the approaching storm."

"The sighting of a comet was once viewed as portentous of a disaster."

There was a portentous silence following the Captain's sudden resignation announcement.

The psychic's readings were rather portentous in nature.

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