of momentous or ominous significance; such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity- Herman Melville; a prodigious vision

[ Syn: prodigious ]

ominously prophetic

[ Syn: fateful , foreboding ]

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 ]