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Meaning of 'pompous' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Pompous [ a.]
- Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession.
- Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style.

Meaning of 'pompous' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . pompous [ s]
Meaning (1):
- puffed up with vanity
Example in sentence:
  • a grandiloquent and boastful manner;
  • a pompous speech;
  • overblown oratory;
  • pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey

Nearby Words:

pomace pomacentroid pomaceous pomade pomander pomarine pomatum pome pomegranate pomel

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