Pompously Synonyms and Antonyms

Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. pretentiously
  2. conceitedly
  3. boastfully
  4. snobbishly
  5. imperiously
  6. insolently
  7. autocratically
  8. disdainfully
  9. magisterially
  10. overbearingly
  11. proudly
  12. ostentatiously
  13. bombastically
  14. theatrically
  15. spectacularly
  16. flamboyantly
  17. gaudily
Antonyms:
  1. quietly
  2. humbly
  3. modestly

Words Related to Pompously

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Pompously Sentence Examples

  • They, and especially the latter, are diffuse and often lax in expression, needlessly prolix, and pompously rhetorical.

  • The papal brief establishing the hierarchy was dated 29th September 1850, and on 7th October Wiseman wrote a pastoral, dated " from out of the Flaminian Gate " - a form diplomatically correct, but of bombastic tone for Protestant ears - in which he spoke enthusiastically, if also a little pompously, of the " restoration of Catholic England to its orbit in the ecclesiastical firmament."

  • Professing to be quite satisfied with this arrangement, he pompously announced that Egypt was no longer in Africa, but a part of Europe; but before seven months had passed he found his constitutional position intolerable, got rid of his irksome cabinet by means of a secretly-organized military riot in Cairo, and reverted to his old autocratic methods of government.

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