pompous
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English pompous, from Old French pompeux, from Late Latin pomposus, from Latin pompa, from Ancient Greek πομπή, from πέμπω ("I send"), equivalent to
pompous
- Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial:
- But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature.
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC ↗:, 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.
- 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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