Portentous and Wonderful

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Portentous adjective - Causing wonder or astonishment.

Usage example: in 1969 people regarded the first landing on the moon as a truly portentous event

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Wonderful and portentous are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wonderful" instead an adjective "Portentous".

Nearby Words: portent, portentously

Wonderful adjective - Causing wonder or astonishment.

Usage example: the mountaintop city of Machu Picchu is unquestionably a wonderful sight to behold

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Portentous and wonderful are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Portentous" instead an adjective "Wonderful".

Synopsis: A crossover with Doctor Who that, aside from effectively capturing all of the characters perfectly, is replete with wonderful interactions between the Doctor and Serenity's crew, in particular Mal and River, surrounded by a tense and portentous plot.

Source: Fanfic Recs / Firefly
And then there's Cho'gall, who has two heads—one of them deep-voiced and portentous, the other flat-out crazy—which spend most of the Bastion of Twilight instance making over-the-top speeches in wonderful Honeybaked counterpoint.

Source: Large Ham / Video Games

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