Pompous
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English
Adjective
Pompous (comparative more Pompous, superlative most Pompous)
- Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.
Synonyms
- affected
- conceited
- pretentious
- smug
- See also Thesaurus:arrogant
Antonyms
Related terms
Adverbs for Pompous
insufferably; ludicrously; self-righteously; absurdly; gorgeously; officiously; ridiculously; noisily; swaggeringly; affectedly; ostentatiously; blatantly; grandiloquently; splendidly; boastfully; showily; superbly; pettily; dramatically; spectacularly; remarkably; amazingly; drolly; comically; preposterously; crassly.
Thesaurus
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
Etymology
From Middle English < Old French pompeux < Late Latin pomposus < Latin pompa (“pomp”) < Ancient Greek πομπή (pompē, “a sending, a solemn procession, pomp”) < πέμπω (“I send”).
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈpɒmpʌs/
Translations
External links
- Pompous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- Pompous in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- Pompous at OneLook Dictionary Search
