portentous

英语

词源

• 借自拉丁語 portentōsus，源自portentus (“预测的”) +‎ -ōsus。对比早期形式portentuous（←中古英語←拉丁語 portentuōsus）。字面分析等同於portent +‎ -ous。
• 借自法語 portentueux

发音

• 國際音標^(幫助): /pɔː(ɹ)ˈtɛntəs/

• 音頻 (南英格蘭)：

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• (通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助): /pɔrˈtɛn(t)əs/

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• 斷字：por‧ten‧tous

形容词

portentous (比較級 more portentous，最高級 most portentous)

1. 重要的，预示的

   近義詞：ominous, momentous；亦參見Thesaurus:important

   • c. 1599-1602, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, act 1, scene 1; republished as Hamlet, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1992, →ISBN, page 4:

     Well may it sort [be fitting] that this portentous figure comes armed through our watch, so like the King that was and is the question of these wars.

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   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 2, in The Whisperer in Darkness:

     It is no longer in my possession, but my memory holds almost every word of its portentous message; and again I affirm my confidence in the sanity of the man who wrote it.

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   • 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “Chief White Halfoat”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page page:

     The chaplain's first mention of the name Yossarian! had tolled deep in his memory like a portentous gong.

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   • 2009, Konstantin Dierks, “Revolution and War”, in In My Power: Letter Writing and Communications in Early America, Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 225:

     If the siege of Boston seemed to end in anticlimax, with the sudden retreat of British military forces, the siege of New York City seen from the inside, fromunder siege, seemed infinitely more portentous: “The Day is Come that in all Probility on which Depends the Salvation of this Countery.”

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   • 2019 March 15, Rachel Aroesti, “The Cinematic Orchestra: To Believe review – soundscape originators' accomplished return”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The main problem with To Believe, however, is that by combining two of their previous styles, the Cinematic Orchestra have landed on a sound that has become ubiquitous in the years they’ve been away – portentous, restrained and impeccably tasteful electronica.

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2. 噩兆的，不祥的

   近義詞：foreshadowing, predictive, premonitory, prognosticatory；亦參見Thesaurus:ominous

3. 自命不凡的，高傲的

   近義詞：vain

近义词

• fateful
• prophetic
• significant

反义词

• humble
• insignificant
• trivial
• unremarkable

衍生词汇

• portentously
• portentousness
• unportentous

相关词汇

• portent

参见

• augury
• foreboding
• ominous
• pretentious

参考资料

“portentous, 'adj..”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2025.