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pompous |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pompous \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: pompous adj : puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek [syn: {grandiloquent}, {overblown}, {pontifical}, {portentous}]
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