Pronunciation Adjective
pompous
- Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.
- 1848, Thackeray, William Makepeace, Vanity Fair, Bantam Classics (1997), 16:
- "Not that the parting speech caused Amelia to philosophise, or that it armed her in any way with a calmness, the result of argument; but it was intolerably dull, pompous, and tedious; and having the fear of her schoolmistress greatly before her eyes, Miss Samuel did not venture, in her presence, to give way to any ebullitions of private grief."
- 1848, Thackeray, William Makepeace, Vanity Fair, Bantam Classics (1997), 16:
- conceited
- smug
- See also Thesaurus:arrogant
- French: pompeux, emphatique
- German: pompös, schwülstig
- Italian: pomposo
- Portuguese: pomposo
- Russian: помпе́зный
- Spanish: majestuoso, pomposo, grandilocuente, altisonante, altísono, rimbombante, campanudo, hinchado
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