pompous

pompous
    adj 1: 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}]
    2: characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display [syn:
       {pompous}, {ceremonious}]
    

Pompous \Pomp"ous\, a. [F. pompeux, L. pomposus. See {Pomp}.]
   1. Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur;
      magnificent; as, a pompous procession.
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   2. Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as,
      pompous manners; a pompous style. "Pompous in high
      presumption." --Chaucer.
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            he pompous vanity of the old schoolmistress.
                                                  --Thackeray.
      [1913 Webster] -- {Pom"ous*ly}, adv. -- {Pomp"ous*ness},
      n.
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147 Moby Thesaurus words for "pompous":
      Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Latinate, affected, arrogant, assured,
      aureate, awkward, bedizened, big-sounding, bloated, boastful,
      bombastic, braggart, ceremonial, ceremonious, cocksure, conceited,
      confident, conventional, convinced, convoluted, cramped, cumbrous,
      decided, declamatory, decorous, determined, egotistical,
      elephantine, elevated, embroidered, euphuistic, exhibitionist,
      flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flatulent, flaunting, flossy, flowery,
      forced, formal, fulsome, fustian, garish, gassy, gaudy,
      grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, guinde, halting, haughty,
      heavy, hieratic, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-hat,
      high-sounding, highfalutin, hoity-toity, hubristic, imperious,
      important, inflated, inkhorn, labored, labyrinthine, leaden,
      lexiphanic, liturgic, lofty, lumbering, lurid, magisterial,
      magniloquent, meretricious, narcissistic, ornate, orotund,
      ostentatious, overbearing, overblown, overconfident, overdone,
      overelaborate, overinvolved, oversure, overweening, overwrought,
      pedantic, persuaded, poised, ponderous, pontifical, positive,
      presumptuous, pretentious, proud, puffy, reassured, rhetorical,
      ritual, ritualistic, sacerdotal, secure, self-assured,
      self-centered, self-conceited, self-confident, self-important,
      self-reliant, selfish, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious,
      sesquipedalian, showy, snobbish, snooty, snotty, solemn, sonorous,
      stately, stiff, stilted, stuck-up, stuffy, sure, swollen, tall,
      tortuous, tumid, turgid, unafraid, undoubting, unfaltering,
      unhesitating, unwavering, unwieldy, uppity, vain, vainglorious,
      well-mannered, windy