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English adjective: pompous

1. pompous puffed up with vanity


SamplesA grandiloquent and boastful manner.
Overblown oratory.
A pompous speech.
Pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey.


Synonymsgrandiloquent, overblown, pontifical, portentous


Similarpretentious


Antonymsunpretentious

2. pompous characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display


Synonymsceremonious









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