Definition of pompous

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Pompous (a.) Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession..

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Magnificent :: Magnificent (a.) Grand in appearance; exhibiting grandeur or splendor; splendid' pompous.
Altiloquent :: Altiloquent (a.) High-sounding; pompous in speech.
Spout :: Spout (v. i.) To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner..
Harangue :: Harangue (n.) A speech addressed to a large public assembly; a popular oration; a loud address a multitude; in a bad sense, a noisy or pompous speech; declamation; ranting..
Showily :: Showily (adv.) In a showy manner; pompously; with parade.
Fustian :: Fustian (a.) Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history..
Spout :: Spout (v. t.) To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
Pomposity :: Pomposity (n.) The quality or state of being pompous; pompousness.
Bloated :: Bloated (p. a.) Distended beyond the natural or usual size, as by the presence of water, serum, etc.; turgid; swollen; as, a bloated face. Also, puffed up with pride; pompous..
Consequential :: Consequential (a.) Assuming or exhibiting an air of consequence; pretending to importance; pompous; self-important; as, a consequential man. See Consequence, n., 4..
Pompous :: Pompous (a.) Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession..
Chaperon :: Chaperon (n.) A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.
Stime :: Stilty (a.) Unreasonably elevated; pompous; stilted; as, a stilty style..
Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To act in a pompous, ostentatious, or arrogant manner; to strut; to look big..
Tumid :: Tumid (a.) Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style..
Consequentially :: Consequentially (adv.) With assumed importance; pompously.
Magniloquent :: Magniloquent (a.) Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent.
Turgescency :: Turgescency (n.) Empty magnificence or pompousness; inflation; bombast; turgidity.
Puff :: Puff (n.) To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance..
Cavalcade :: Cavalcade (n.) A procession of persons on horseback; a formal, pompous march of horsemen by way of parade..
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