Pompous \Pomp"ous\, a. [F. pompeux, L. pomposus. See Pomp.]
1. Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur;
magnificent; as, a pompous procession.
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2. Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as,
pompous manners; a pompous style. "Pompous in high
presumption." --Chaucer.
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he pompous vanity of the old schoolmistress.
--Thackeray.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pompous
adj : puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful
manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech";
"pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"-
Newsweek [syn: grandiloquent, overblown, pontifical,
portentous]
WordNet (r) 2.0
147 Moby Thesaurus words for "pompous":
Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Latinate, 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,
grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, guinde, halting, haughty,
heavy, hieratic, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-hat,
high-sounding, highfalutin, hoity-toity, hubristic, imperious,
important, inflated, inkhorn, labored, labyrinthine, 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,
self-reliant, selfish, 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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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