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Pompous

Pompous Meaning & Definition
Pompous Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Pompous?

[adj] puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek

Synonyms | Synonyms for Pompous: grandiloquent | overblown | pontifical | portentous | pretentious

Related Terms | Find terms related to Pompous: affected | arrogant | assured | aureate | awkward | bedizened | big-sounding | bloated | boastful | bombastic | braggart | ceremonial | ceremonious | cocksure | conceited | confident | conventional | convinced | convoluted | cramped | cumbrous | decided | declamatory | decorous | determined | egotistical | elephantine | elevated | embroidered | euphuistic | exhibitionist | flamboyant | flaming | flashy | flatulent | flaunting | flossy | flowery | forced | formal | fulsome | fustian | garish | gassy | gaudy | Gongoresque | grandiloquent | grandiose | grandisonant | guinde | halting | haughty | heavy | hieratic | highfalutin | high-flowing | high-flown | high-flying | high-hat | high-sounding | hoity-toity | hubristic | imperious | important | inflated | inkhorn | Johnsonian | labored | labyrinthine | Latinate | leaden | lexiphanic | liturgic | lofty | lumbering | lurid | magisterial | magniloquent | meretricious | narcissistic | ornate | orotund | ostentatious | overbearing | overblown | overconfident | overdone | overelaborate | overinvolved | oversure | overweening | overwrought | pedantic | persuaded | poised | ponderous | pontifical | positive | presumptuous | pretentious | proud | puffy | reassured | rhetorical | ritual | ritualistic | sacerdotal | secure | self-assured | self-centered | self-conceited | self-confident | self-important | selfish | self-reliant | sensational | sensationalistic | sententious | sesquipedalian | showy | snobbish | snooty | snotty | solemn | sonorous | stately | stiff | stilted | stuck-up | stuffy | sure | swollen | tall | tortuous | tumid | turgid | unafraid | undoubting | unfaltering | unhesitating | unwavering | unwieldy | uppity | vain | vainglorious | well-mannered | windy

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Pompous In Webster's Dictionary

\Pomp"ous\, a. [F. pompeux, L. pomposus. See {Pomp}.] 1. Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession. 2. Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style. ``Pompous in high presumption.'' --Chaucer. he pompous vanity of the old schoolmistress. --Thackeray. -- {Pom"ous*ly}, adv. -- {Pomp"ous*ness}, n.

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