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pompous

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pom·pous  (pmps)
adj.
1. Characterized by excessive self-esteem or exaggerated dignity; pretentious: pompous officials who enjoy giving orders.
2. Full of high-sounding phrases; bombastic: a pompous proclamation.
3. Chracterized by pomp or stately display; ceremonious: a pompous occasion.

[Middle English, from Old French pompeux, from Late Latin pompsus, from Latin pompa, pomp; see pomp.]

pom·posi·ty (-ps-t), pompous·ness (-ps-ns) n.
pompous·ly adv.

pompous [ˈpɒmpəs]
adj
1. exaggeratedly or ostentatiously dignified or self-important
2. ostentatiously lofty in style a pompous speech
3. Rare characterized by ceremonial pomp or splendour
pompously  adv
pompousness  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.pompous - puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
pretentious - making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition"
2.pompous - characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display

pompous
Translations
pompous [ˈpɒmpəs] ADJ [person] → pretencioso; [occasion] → ostentoso; [language] → ampuloso, inflado
pompous [ˈpɒmpəs] adj [person, style, comment] → pompeux/euse
pompous
adj
personaufgeblasen, wichtigtuerisch; attitude, behaviour also, phrasegespreizt; language, letter, remarkschwülstig, bombastisch; don’t be so pompoustu nicht so aufgeblasen, sei nicht so wichtigtuerisch
(= magnificent) buildinggrandios, bombastisch; occasiongrandios
pompous [ˈpɒmpəs] adj (pej) (speech, attitude) → pomposo/a; (person) → pieno/a di boria


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He read it aloud in a pompous voice, as if to let Dorothy and Billina see that he was educated and could read writing.
It recrudesced the laughter and the song, and put a lilt into my own imagination so that I could laugh and sing and say foolish things with the liveliest of them, or platitudes with verve and intensity to the satisfaction of the pompous mediocre ones who knew no other way to talk.
Sometimes, no doubt, it followed in the train of the pompous governors when they came over from England.
 
 
 
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