Another word for pompous
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Adjective
Characterized by an exaggerated show of dignity or self-importance
- Pompous or pretentious:
- having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompous or officious
- blowing or coming in puffs
- panting; short-winded
- puffed up; swollen; inflated
- Displaying exaggerated dignity or self-importance; pompous.
- Claiming that or behaving as if one is important or deserving of merit when such is not the case:
- Showing or betraying an attitude of superiority:
- Marked by an extravagant or presumptuous outward show; ostentatious:
- Pretentiously self-important; pompous.
- Given to frivolity or silliness.
- Characterized by greatness of scope or intent; grand:
- Characterized by excessive self-importance or affected grandeur; pompous:
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Another word for pompous
Modifier
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- Alternative spelling of highfalutin.
- Lacking sufficient ventilation; close.
- Having the respiratory passages blocked:
- Dull and boring:
- Relating to, characteristic of, or suitable for a pontiff.
- Pompously dogmatic or self-important; pretentious.
- The vestments and insignia of a bishop.
- Making a striking or aesthetically pleasing display:
- Marked by or given to extravagant, often tasteless display.
- Characterized by or given to ostentation.
- Excessive, exaggerated, or overdone:
- Full of empty or pretentious language; bombastic:
- using high-flown, pompous, bombastic words and expressions
- Exceedingly lofty or exalted:
- Highly pretentious or inflated:
- Filled or expanded by or as if by gas or air.
- Unduly enlarged or aggrandized; swollen:
- Full of empty or pretentious language; bombastic.
- Of, relating to, or suitable for dramatic performance or the theater.
- Marked by exaggerated self-display and unnatural behavior; affectedly dramatic.
- A stage performance, especially by amateurs.
- using or characterized by high-sounding but unimportant or meaningless language; pompous; grandiloquent
- Characterized by greatness of scope or intent; grand:
- Characterized by excessive self-importance or affected grandeur; pompous:
- Holding or characterized by an unduly high opinion of oneself; vain.
- Feeling pleasurable satisfaction over an act, possession, quality, or relationship by which one measures one's stature or self-worth:
- Occasioning or being a reason for pride:
- Feeling or showing justifiable self-respect:
- Scornfully and condescendingly proud.
- Having or displaying a sense of overbearing self-worth or self-importance.
- Marked by or arising from a feeling or assumption of one's superiority toward others:
- having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompous or officious
- Claiming that or behaving as if one is important or deserving of merit when such is not the case:
- Showing or betraying an attitude of superiority:
- Marked by an extravagant or presumptuous outward show; ostentatious:
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