Difference between Pretentious and Portentous

PRETENTIOUS vs PORTENTOUS: ADJECTIVE

Intended to attract notice and impress others
Of a display that is tawdry or vulgar
Claiming that or behaving as if one is important or deserving of merit when such is not the case.
Showing or betraying an attitude of superiority.
Marked by an extravagant or presumptuous outward show; ostentatious: : showy.
Full of pretension; disposed to lay claim to more than is one's; presuming; assuming.
Marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction.
Ostentatious; intended to impress others.
Making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction
(of a display) tawdry or vulgar

Of momentous or ominous significance
Of ominous significance
Puffed up with vanity
Of the nature of or constituting a portent; foreboding.
Full of unspecifiable significance; exciting wonder and awe.
Marked by pompousness; pretentiously weighty.
Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreshadowing, esp. foreshadowing ill; ominous.
Hence: Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; dreadful.
Ominously prophetic.

Pretended; unfounded; false.
Full of pretension, or claims to greater excellence or importance than the truth warrants; attempting to pass for more than the actual worth or importance; making an exaggerated outward show.

Sesquipedalian, Highfaluting, Tasteless, Parvenu, Portentous, Grandiose, Ostentatious, Kitsch, Sententious, Showy, Hifalutin, Grandiloquent, Highfalutin, Arty, Pompous

Ponderous, Lugubrious, Ominous, Significant, Important, Prodigious, Overblown, Fateful, Pontifical, Prophetical, Pretentious, Pompous, Prophetic, Foreboding, Grandiloquent

Sesquipedalian, Highfaluting, Tasteless, Parvenu, Portentous, Grandiose, Ostentatious, Kitsch, Sententious, Showy, Hifalutin, Grandiloquent, Highfalutin, Arty, Pompous

Ponderous, Lugubrious, Ominous, Significant, Important, Prodigious, Overblown, Fateful, Pontifical, Prophetical, Pretentious, Pompous, Prophetic, Foreboding, Grandiloquent

Hipster paradise and a bit pretentious, overall okay.
Help me stamp out boring, pretentious artist statements!
Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style, bombastic.
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I gotta go stop being a pretentious fuck.
Overstated language is wordy, vague, and often pretentious.
Many readers find this diction unnatural or pretentious.
What a silly little emotional and pretentious rant.
Yet every moment feels either pretentious or poky.
Caught between a pretentious, sniffy, student scene, and a pretentious, sniffy and snidey fan scene, even being myself took practice.

Let us test this portentous bond, and see just how fast it holds!
Probably no ship in modern history has carried a more portentous freight.
Never did such portentous shot holes perforate the carcass of any quarry.
They returned smiting their breasts, in anguish portentous of destruction.
Some portentous truth was seeking for admittance to my brain.
Of course the great event had its portentous accompaniments.
Anno domini one or more portentous asset purchases and.
The slavery question now began to assume portentous magnitude.
On 17 October, there will be a portentous conjunction.
SYN: Predictive, ominous, portentous, premonitory, fatidical, oracular, sibylline.