pompous
21pompous — adjective /ˈpɒmpʌs/ Affectedly grand, solemn or self important. Syn: affected, conceited, pretentious, smug Ant: humble …
22pompous — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Latinate, affected, arrogant, assured, aureate, awkward, bedizened, big sounding, bloated, boastful, bombastic, braggart, ceremonial, ceremonious, cocksure, conceited, confident, conventional,… …
23pompous — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. self important, ostentatious; high flown, bombastic, stilted; haughty, vain, grandiose, puffed up, arrogant, stuffy, snooty, stuffed shirt (inf.). See boasting.Ant., humble, unassuming. II (Roget s… …
24pompous — pomp·ous || pÉ‘mpÉ™s / pÉ’m adj. pretentious, arrogant; conceited, overly proud, haughty …
25pompous — adjective 1》 affectedly grand, solemn, or self important. 2》 archaic characterized by pomp or splendour. Derivatives pomposity noun pompously adverb pompousness noun Origin ME: from OFr. pompeux full of grandeur , from late L. pomposus, from… …
26pompous — a. 1. Showy, ostentatious, stately, lofty, grand, majestic, magnificent, superb, splendid, august, magisterial, dignified. 2. Swelling, inflated, bombastic, turgid, pretentious, stilted, boastful, grandiloquent, high flowing, high sounding, high… …
27pompous — adj 1. self important, pretentious,vainglorious, vain; arrogant, haughty, proud, conceited, egotistic, egotistical; puffed up, Inf. uppity, Inf. toplofty, snobbish, Sl. snooty; pontifical, magisterial, imperious, authoritative, Inf. high handed;… …
28pompous — pomp·ous …
29pompous — adjective Syn: self important, overbearing, sententious, grandiose, affected, pretentious, puffed up, haughty, proud, conceited, supercilious, condescending, patronizing Ant: modest …
30pompous — [ˈpɒmpəs] adj showing disapproval speaking or behaving in a very serious and formal way that shows that you think you are very important pomposity [pɒmˈpɒsəti] noun [U] …
