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adj. Characterized by excessive self-esteem or exaggerated dignity; pretentious: pompous officials who enjoy giving orders.

adj. Full of high-sounding phrases; bombastic: a pompous proclamation.

adj. Chracterized by pomp or stately display; ceremonious: a pompous occasion.

adj. Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.

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

adj. Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious

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.

adj. characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display

adj. puffed up with vanity

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pretentious   

self-effacing    humble    modest   

pomposity    pomp    pompously   

stately    magnificent    ostentatious    pretentious    boastful    vainlorious    self-important    bombastic    affected    arrogant   

arrogant    solemn    stately    stupid    pretentious    pedantic    smug    tiresome    pathetic    grand