pompous
Adjective Satellite
- puffed up with vanity; ; ; ; - Newsweek
- "a pompous speech"
Adjective
- Characterized by an exaggerated display of self-importance or dignity.
- characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display
Adj
- Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.
Examples
- His opponent’s pompous demeanor after a high-scoring play was almost as annoying as the word itself.
- Not that the parting speech caused Amelia to philosophise, or that it armed her in any way with a calmness, the result of argument; but it was intolerably dull, pompous, and tedious; and having the fear of her schoolmistress greatly before her eyes, Miss Samuel did not venture, in her presence, to give way to any ebullitions of private grief.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English pompous, from Old French pompeux, pompos, from Late Latin pomposus, from Latin pompa (“pomp”), from Ancient Greek πομπή (pompḗ, “a sending, a solemn procession, pomp”), from πέμπω (pémpō, “I send”), equivalent to pomp + -ous. Doublet of pomposo.
Synonyms
ceremonious, grandiloquent, overblown, pontifical, portentous, conceited, highfalutin, smug
Scrabble Score: 13
pompous: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordpompous: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pompous: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary