--- title: "How to pronounce \"portentious\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"portentious\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/1pqbbS8lt_c/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/portentious" --- # How to pronounce "portentious" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/pɒrtɛnʃəs/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **por·ten·ti·ous** ## Meaning & Usage ### ADJECTIVE - Misconstruction of portentous. ### Example Sentences - "portentious lower jaw which seems like the long narrow lid of an immense" - "The opening is portentious and soon becomes a driving whirlwind of tone." ### Common Phrases - portentious thunder - portentious lower ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (8 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "portentious" in real conversation: ### Example 1 *Accent: US* > "volunteer please visit librivox. org this reading by Stuart Wills Mobi dick by portentious lower jaw which seems like the long narrow lid of an immense" - **Watch at 300:40**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pqbbS8lt_c&t=18040s) ### Example 2 *Accent: US* > "The opening is portentious and soon becomes a driving whirlwind of tone." - **Watch at 295:34**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUWg9JDU1oM&t=17734s) ### Example 3 > "organizan Change the World um so I'm going to talk a little bit about uh what I believe is a a much larger Revolution that's Brewing an online education and just how portentious that is um and then how Newton fits into that so um kind of the progression of humankind um I think we're at the next phase now and uh I'm going to try to summarize uh the history human Affairs in a few slides here um" - **Watch at 0:11**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EXHUpCyEOA&t=11s) ### Example 4 *Accent: US* > "unusual that circumstance has gone far to invest it with portentious so rarely" - **Watch at 162:19**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pqbbS8lt_c&t=9739s) ### Example 5 *Accent: US* > "conquests come but slowly long delayed and inconsiderable but the loss is sudden and portentious and as with these examples I have" - **Watch at 139:48**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr2HO8nV3Ws&t=8388s) ### Example 6 *Accent: US* > "mohammadans Buddhists in the same relation he asked himself recurring to the Dilemma which had seemed so portentious to him can these hundreds of" - **Watch at 125:54**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSaolSEDj2w&t=7554s) ### Example 7 *Accent: US* > "Trojans and their allies in the city but all the time Jo bow to dill and roared with his portentious Thunder pale fear got hold upon them and they spilled the" - **Watch at 226:31**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wgs1hLhSc2g&t=13591s) ### Example 8 *Accent: US* > "chaga this deadly monster was born in central India in the place which the Chinese call tent his birth was portentious they say" - **Watch at 9:41**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enS1EWHxoG0&t=581s) ## How to Pronounce "portentious" - **Syllables**: por · ten · ti · ous - **IPA**: `/pɒrtɛnʃəs/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “portentious”? “portentious” is pronounced /pɒrtɛnʃəs/ (por · ten · ti · ous). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “portentious”? “portentious” has 4 syllables: por · ten · ti · ous. ### What does “portentious” mean? Misconstruction of portentous. ### How can I hear “portentious” used in real sentences? This page has 8 real-world video examples of “portentious” with synchronized subtitles. 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