Thesaurus: pompous

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1. a. Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession.
2. a. Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style.
3. adj. puffed up with vanity
4. adj. characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display
5. 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.
6. j:100 a. characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display