The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word DIRE , but the solution may also be FATEFUL which is one of the most recent solution (1999 in Boston Globe).
Portentous crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| DIRE | 40 % | 4 |
| FATEFUL | 20 % | 7 |
| OMINOUS | 20 % | 7 |
| SINISTER | 20 % | 8 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Portentous
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- foreboding
- prophetical
- fateful
- prophetic
- important
- significant
- grandiloquent
- pretentious
- pompous
- overblown
- prodigious
- pontifical
Crossword Answer definitions
DIRE adjective- Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
- Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
- Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal
- Bad in quality, awful, terrible.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result DIRE
- Harrowing
- Kind of straits
- Urgent
- Critical
- Like some straits
- Serious
- Macabre
- Straits or consequences preceder
- Very urgent
- Disastrous
More clues leading to the result FATEFUL
More clues leading to the result OMINOUS
- Menacing
- Sinister
- Forbidding
- Foreboding
- Inauspicious
- Like dark clouds
- Worrisome
- Threatening
- Portending harm
- Appearing threatening