Pompous
['pɒmpəs] or ['pɑmpəs]
Definition
(adj.) characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display .
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Definition
(a.) Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession.
(a.) Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Showy, ostentatious, stately, lofty, grand, majestic, magnificent, superb, splendid, august, magisterial.[2]. Swelling, inflated, bombastic, turgid, pretentious, stilted, boastful, grandiloquent, high-flowing, high-sounding, HIGHFALUTIN, SPREAD-EAGLE.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Magnificent, gorgeous, splendid, showy, sumptuous, ostentatious, stately,lofty, grand, bombastic, turgid, stiff, Inflated, pretentious, coxcombical,assuming
ANT:Unpretending, unobtrusive, modest, unassuming, plain-mannered, humble-minded
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Examples
- He was pompous, but with such a cook what would one not swallow? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- These people and their like gave the pompous Russell Square merchant pompous dinners back again. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Lots of money--old girl--pompous doctor--not a bad idea--good fun,' were the intelligible sentences which issued from his lips. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- You are getting very pompous in the early morning, he told himself. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- George carried the pompous supplies to his mother and the shattered old widower whom it was now the main business of her life to tend and comfort. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A pompous and unintelligent classical pretentiousness dominated them, and they dominated the schools of the middle and upper classes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was thinking of his own plans, and lost in pompous admiration of his own irresistible powers of pleasing. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- You're getting awfully pompous. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The van der Luydens, said Archer, feeling himself pompous as he spoke, are the most powerful influence in New York society. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- For his friends and cronies, he had a pompous old schoolmaster, who flattered him, and a toady, his senior, whom he could thrash. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He could not endure his airs as a man of fashion, and laughed heartily at his pompous braggadocio stories. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Our visitor bore every mark of being an average commonplace British tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- In pompous nothings on his side, and civil assents on that of his cousins, their time passed till they entered Meryton. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- She is stupid and pompous, like all your mother's family, whom I never could endure. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- How dare the pompous priest abuse his flock! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They held many aversions too in common, and could have the comfort of laughing together over works of false sentimentality and pompous pretension. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A pompous butler ushered us severely to the door, and we found ourselves in the street. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Her little boy sat by her side in pompous new sables. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Then he opened the book-case, and took down the great red Bible we have spoken of a pompous book, seldom looked at, and shining all over with gold. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He was in full dress, as pompous as an undertaker. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Mr Twemlow, your word will have weight with her pompous, self-blinded father. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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