pompous Antonyms
Strongest:
- humble
- bashful
- shy
- sheepish
- bashful
- lowly
- humble
- timid
- diffident
- unpretentious
- subdued
- modest
- modest
- unpretentious
- sheepish
- lowly
- subdued
- diffident
- shy
- timid
Strong:
- shrinking
- unassertive
- overmodest
- meek
- unaggressive
- quiet
- deferential
- unobtrusive
- mousy
- compliant
- demure
- self-doubting
- submissive
- unassertive
- deferential
- passive
- unarrogant
- introverted
- self-critical
- acquiescent
- introverted
- compliant
- acquiescent
- self-doubting
- self-critical
- meek
- submissive
- quiet
- passive
- shrinking
- mousey
- unobtrusive
- unassuming
- unaggressive
- mousey
- unassuming
- unarrogant
- demure
- overmodest
- mousy
Weak:
Strongest:
Strong:
- assumptive
- important
- high-hat
- supercilious
- huffy
- superior
- bumptious
- high-handed
- cavalier
- pretentious
- haughty
- authoritarian
- dominant
- presumptuous
- chesty
- masterful
- high-and-mighty
- smug
- sniffy
- uppity
- imperious
- domineering
- uppish
- hifalutin
Weak:
- stiff-necked
- condescending
- impertinent
- peremptory
- self-satisfied
- toploftical
- hubristic
- uninhibited
- lordly
- self-complacent
- egoistic
- blusterous
- saucy
- presuming
- pontifical
- proud
- snobbish
- vainglorious
- braggart
- pontificating
- impudent
- egotistic
- self-asserting
- egocentric
- complacent
- highfalutin
- self-centered
- bossy
- brash
- egotistical
- magisterial
- bombastic
- boastful
- lofty
- overweening
- self-assertive
- vain
- huffish
- egoistical
- blustery
- snooty
- narcissistic
- disdainful
- swaggering
- braggy
- cocky
- toplofty
- dominating
- patronizing
- snobby
- immodest
- self-conceited
- conceited
- prideful
- stuck-up
Meaning of pompous
pompous (s)
puffed up with vanity
pompous (a)
characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display
pompous Sentence Examples
- The pompous executive strutted around the office, demanding respect from his subordinates.
- The concert pianist played with a pompous flourish, eliciting polite applause from the audience.
- The queen's speech was full of pompous phrases and haughty gestures.
- The politician's pompous promises failed to convince the skeptical voters.
- The pompous general boasted of his military prowess, but his soldiers knew better.
- The art collector's pompous display of wealth only served to make him appear foolish.
- The pompous bishop's sermon droned on, boring his congregation to tears.
- The pompous doctor refused to treat the patient until he had been properly addressed by his title.
- The pompous professor's lectures were so tedious that his students fell asleep in class.
- The pompous wedding ceremony was a ostentatious display of wealth and arrogance.
FAQs About the word pompous
puffed up with vanity, characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display
arrogant, assumptive, important, high-hat, supercilious, huffy, superior, bumptious, high-handed,cavalier
humble, bashful, shy, sheepish, bashful, lowly, humble, timid, diffident, unpretentious
The pompous executive strutted around the office, demanding respect from his subordinates.
The concert pianist played with a pompous flourish, eliciting polite applause from the audience.
The queen's speech was full of pompous phrases and haughty gestures.
The politician's pompous promises failed to convince the skeptical voters.
