'Pompous' definitions:

Definition of 'pompous'

(from WordNet)
adjective
Puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek [syn: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous]
adjective
Characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display [syn: pompous, ceremonious]

Definition of 'Pompous'

From: GCIDE
  • Pompous \Pomp"ous\, a. [F. pompeux, L. pomposus. See Pomp.]
  • 1. Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style. "Pompous in high presumption." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • he pompous vanity of the old schoolmistress. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster] -- {Pom"ous*ly}, adv. -- {Pomp"ous*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'pompous'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Pompous'