Of momentous or ominous significance:
— Such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity.

synonym: prodigious.

Roget 511: predicting etc. v.; predictive, prophetic; fatidic^†, fatidical^†; vaticinal, oracular, fatiloquent^†, haruspical, Sibylline; weatherwise^†.    ominous, portentous, augurous^†, augurial, augural; auspicial^†, auspicious; prescious^†, monitory, extispicious^†, premonitory, significant of, pregnant with, bit with the fate of.    ... show more

Roget 860: fearing etc. v.; frightened etc. v.; in fear, in a fright etc. n.; haunted with the fear of etc. n.; afeard^†.    afraid, fearful; timid, timorous; nervous, diffident, coy, faint-hearted, tremulous, shaky, afraid of one's shadow, apprehensive, restless, fidgety; more frightened than hurt.    aghast; awe-stricken, horror-stricken, terror-stricken, panic-stricken, awestruck, awe-stricken, horror-struck; frightened to death, white as a sheet; pale, pale as a ghost, pale as death, pale as ashes; breathless, in hysterics.    inspiring fear etc. v.; alarming; formidable, redoubtable; perilous etc. (danger) 665; portentous; fearful; dread, dreadful; fell; dire, direful; shocking; terrible, terrific; tremendous; horrid, horrible, horrific; ghastly; awful, awe-inspiring; revolting etc. (painful) 830; Gorgonian.    ... show more

Ominously prophetic.

synonyms: fateful, foreboding.

Puffed up with vanity.

synonyms: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical.

Polish: bombastyczny, pompatyczny, szumny, górnolotny, namaszczony