pompous

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.

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

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

pompous·ly adv.

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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

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	pompous - puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek overblown, grandiloquent, pontifical, portentous 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 ceremonious

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pompous

adjective

1. self-important, affected, arrogant, pretentious, bloated, grandiose, imperious, showy, overbearing, ostentatious, puffed up, portentous, magisterial, supercilious, pontifical, vainglorious What a pompous little man he is.
self-important simple, natural, modest, humble, unaffected, unpretentious, self-effacing

2. grandiloquent, high-flown, inflated, windy, overblown, turgid, bombastic, boastful, flatulent, arty-farty (informal), fustian, orotund, magniloquent She winced at his pompous phraseology.
grandiloquent direct, simple, succinct, plain-spoken

Translations

pompous [ˈpɒmpəs] ADJ [person] → pretencioso; [occasion] → ostentoso; [language] → ampuloso, inflado

pompous [ˈpɒmpəs] adj [person, style, comment] → pompeux/euse

pompous

adj

person → aufgeblasen, wichtigtuerisch; attitude, behaviour also, phrase → gespreizt; language, letter, remark → schwülstig, bombastisch; don’t be so pompous → tu nicht so aufgeblasen, sei nicht so wichtigtuerisch

(= magnificent) building → grandios, bombastisch; occasion → grandios

pompous [ˈpɒmpəs] adj (pej) (speech, attitude) → pomposo/a; (person) → pieno/a di boria