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wichtigtuerisch — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • portentous adj Carrying great or worrying importance.

Senses

wichtigtuerisch is used for these senses in English:

  • bumptious (UK) Obtrusively pushy; self-important; self-assertive to a pretentious extreme.
  • portentous Of momentous or ominous significance.
  • self-important Having, or behaving as if having, too high of an opinion of one's own importance.

portentous — full definition

  1. adj Carrying great or worrying importance.
  2. adj Seeming to warn of something bad to come.
  3. adj Full of pride and self-importance.
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