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

adj. ominously prophetic

adj. puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek

adj. having important issues or results; "the year's only really consequential legislation"; "an eventful decision"

adj. of the greatest importance; "the all-important subject of disarmament"; "crucial information"; "in chess cool nerves are of the essence"

adj. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly"

adj. close in time; about to occur; "retribution is at hand"; "some people believe the day of judgment is close at hand"; "in imminent danger"; "his impending retirement"

adj. having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims"; "chesty as a peacock"

adj. marked by casual disrespect; "a flip answer to serious question"; "the student was kept in for impudent behavior"

adj. able to deal authoritatively with affairs; "dismissed the matter with an imperious wave of her hand"

adj. exhibiting self-importance; "big talk"

adj. overly self-confident or self-assertive; "a very cocky young man"

adj. ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"

adj. elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech"

adj. expressing extreme contempt

adj. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer

adj. marked by excessive confidence; "an arrogant and cocksure materialist"; "so overconfident and impudent as to speak to the queen"; "the less he knows the more positive he gets"

adj. characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary"; "vain about her clothes"

adj. excessively forward; "an assumptive person"; "on a subject like this it would be too assuming for me to decide"; "the duchess would not put up with presumptuous servants"

adj. of a display that is tawdry or vulgar

adj. artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"

adj. exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"

adj. (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension

adj. of very great significance; "deciding to drop the atom bomb was a very big decision"; "a momentous event"

adj. highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era; "epochal decisions made by Roosevelt and Churchill"; "an epoch-making discovery"

adj. sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; "earthshaking proposals"; "the contest was no world-shaking affair"; "the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering"

adj. serving as or based on evidence; "evidential signs of a forced entry"; "its evidentiary value"

adj. fairly large or important in effect; influential; "played a large role in the negotiations"

adj. of outstanding significance; "Einstein's monumental contributions to physics"

adj. worthy of notice; "a noteworthy fact is that her students rarely complain"; "a remarkable achievement"

adj. indistinctly prophetic

adj. prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom

adj. foreseeing the future

adj. obscurely prophetic; "Delphic pronouncements"; "an oracular message"

adj. resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; "the high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions"

adj. capable of seeing to a great distance

adj. warning of future misfortune

adj. of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions

adj. showily imitative of art or artists

adj. pretentiously artistic; cloyingly charming

adj. pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals); "high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school"; "a high-sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution"

adj. affectedly genteel

adj. (British informal) upstart

adj. characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position

adj. given to the overuse of long words; "sesquipedalian orators"; "this sesquipedalian way of saying one has no money"

adj. not important or noteworthy

adj. free from pomp or affectation; "comfortable but modest cottages"; "a simple rectangular brick building"; "a simple man with simple tastes"