Meaning of POMPOUS
| Pronunciation: | | 'pâmpus
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| | Definition: | | [adj] puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek |
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| | Synonyms: | | grandiloquent, overblown, pontifical, portentous, pretentious |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pomp"ous\, a. [F. pompeux, L. pomposus. See {Pomp}.]
1. Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur;
magnificent; as, a pompous procession.
2. Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as,
pompous manners; a pompous style. ``Pompous in high
presumption.'' --Chaucer.
he pompous vanity of the old schoolmistress.
--Thackeray.
-- {Pom"ous*ly}, adv. -- {Pomp"ous*ness}, n.
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