Synonyms: overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous, grandiloquent
Definition: puffed up with vanity
Usage: a grandiloquent and boastful manner; overblown oratory; a pompous speech; pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey- Newsweek
Similar words: pretentious
Definition: making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction
Usage: a pretentious country house; a pretentious fraud; a pretentious scholarly edition
Synonyms: foreboding, fateful, portentous
Definition: ominously prophetic
Similar words: prophetic, prophetical
Definition: foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention
Usage: prophetic writings; prophetic powers; words that proved prophetic
Synonyms: prodigious, portentous
Definition: of momentous or ominous significance
Usage: such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity- Herman Melville; a prodigious vision
Similar words: important, significant
Definition: important in effect or meaning
Usage: a significant change in tax laws; a significant change in the Constitution; a significant contribution; significant details; statistically significant