Pompous

What do we mean by pompous?

Characterized by excessive self-esteem or exaggerated dignity; pretentious. adjective

Full of high-sounding phrases; bombastic. adjective

Characterized by pomp or stately display. adjective

Full of or characterized by pomp or showy display; ostentatiously grand, dignified, or magnificent; splendid; stately: as, a pompous triumph; a pompous procession.

Exhibiting self-importance or an exaggerated sense of dignity; ostentatiously dignified or self-important; lofty: as, a pompous style; pompous in manners.

Synonyms Superb, grand, august, lofty, dignified.—

Magisterial, swelling, inflated, bom bastic, grandiloquent, pretentious. That which gives pompous its distinctive character among these words and the words used in defining it is the idea of the display of magnificence for the sake of enhancing, properly or improperly, the dignity, etc., of the person or thing most concerned. A pompous procession gives dignity to a person thus welcomed to a city; a pompous deportment or manner of speech arises from the feeling of one's own importance and the effort to seem what one thinks himself to be. Pompous is used in a good sense now only when applied to public ceremonies or celebrations or the ways of courts.

Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent. adjective

Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious adjective

Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important. adjective

Characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display adjective

Puffed up with vanity adjective

Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.

Words that are spelled similarly to pompous:
pompous, pompoms, pompons.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word pompous:
verbose, overblown, mirth, bombastic, pretentious, arrogant, overbearing, ass, childish, grandeur, aristocrat, astro, incompetent, nawab, spoiled, ridiculous, vain, boring, satirical, headmaster, wit, affection, genius, gentleman, attitude, percy, genuine, unnecessary, phrases, manner, loves, proud, politicians, servant, lacking, baroque, behaviour, tone, bore, nonetheless, comedy, voiced, reed, pride, grace, collins, personality, character, portrayed, nickname, verse, romantic, mrs, trouble, actors, thinking, speech, landscape, roles, wealthy, bit, alan.

Words that rhyme with pompous:
compas, swamp us.

Adjectives that are often used to describe pompous:
same, little, old.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective pompous:
man, manner, style, title, language, words, titles, phrases, ceremonies, fool, display, way, name, air, tone, funeral, gentleman, voice, speech, procession, ceremony, fellow, person, rhetoric, show, speeches, attitude, ceremonial, terms, names, diction, phraseology, figure, dignity, declamation, parade, phrase, description, individual, account, solemnity, pride, word, official, tones, train, nonsense, letter, asses, eulogy, inscription, fools, buildings, rites, ritual, talk, airs, windbag, processions, pretensions, appearance, expression, expressions, vanity, idiot, officer, proclamation, monument, descriptions, ceremonials, officials, strain, inscriptions, entry, retinue, march, jargon, gentlemen, array, announcement, sort, court, affectation, father, fashion, platitudes, butler, shows, pronouncements, accounts, edition.

Consonant match to pompous:
pump us.

Words that sound like pompous:
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