portentous


portentous (http://definr.com/portentous)

     adj 1: of momentous or ominous significance; "such a
            portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman
            Melville; "a prodigious vision" [syn: prodigious]
     2: of ominous significance [syn: fateful, foreboding(a)]
     3: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful
        manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech";
        "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"-
        Newsweek [syn: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical]