Definition of pompous

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Pompous (a.) Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style..

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Turgent :: Turgent (a.) Inflated; bombastic; turgid; pompous.
Magniloquent :: Magniloquent (a.) Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent.
Showiness :: Showiness (n.) The quality or state of being showy; pompousness; great parade; ostentation.
Showily :: Showily (adv.) In a showy manner; pompously; with parade.
Turgescency :: Turgescency (n.) Empty magnificence or pompousness; inflation; bombast; turgidity.
Declaim :: Declaim (v. i.) To speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant..
Splendid :: Splendid (a.) Showy; magnificent; sumptuous; pompous; as, a splendid palace; a splendid procession or pageant..
Stime :: Stilty (a.) Unreasonably elevated; pompous; stilted; as, a stilty style..
Altiloquent :: Altiloquent (a.) High-sounding; pompous in speech.
Farce :: Farce (v. t.) To swell out; to render pompous.
Pompous :: Pompous (a.) Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession..
Stride :: Stride (v. t.) To walk with long steps, especially in a measured or pompous manner..
Grandiloquent :: Grandiloquent (a.) Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
Inflated :: Inflated (a.) Turgid; swelling; puffed up; bombastic; pompous; as, an inflated style..
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..
Emblazon :: Emblazon (v. t.) To deck in glaring colors; to set off conspicuously; to display pompously; to decorate.
Tumid :: Tumid (a.) Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style..
Johnsonese :: "Johnsonese (n.) The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson, or one formed in imitation of it; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words..
Prance :: Prance (v. i.) To walk or strut about in a pompous, showy manner, or with warlike parade..
Altiloquence :: Altiloquence (n.) Lofty speech; pompous language.
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