pompous Antonyms
Strongest:
- unpretentious
- shy
- modest
- diffident
- modest
- lowly
- bashful
- unpretentious
- timid
- sheepish
- subdued
- humble
- bashful
- shy
- diffident
- sheepish
- timid
- lowly
- humble
- subdued
Strong:
- submissive
- mousy
- passive
- compliant
- meek
- meek
- self-doubting
- unaggressive
- self-critical
- unarrogant
- mousey
- acquiescent
- self-critical
- introverted
- overmodest
- quiet
- unassuming
- unarrogant
- demure
- mousey
- unaggressive
- demure
- quiet
- shrinking
- unassertive
- self-doubting
- unassertive
- shrinking
- unassuming
- introverted
- acquiescent
- submissive
- compliant
- deferential
- unobtrusive
- unobtrusive
- deferential
- mousy
- overmodest
- passive
Weak:
Strongest:
Strong:
- high-hat
- chesty
- important
- haughty
- supercilious
- high-handed
- masterful
- imperious
- uppity
- high-and-mighty
- authoritarian
- hifalutin
- domineering
- sniffy
- assumptive
- bumptious
- huffy
- dominant
- smug
- uppish
- cavalier
- pretentious
- superior
- presumptuous
Weak:
- conceited
- egoistical
- hubristic
- stiff-necked
- huffish
- pontificating
- uninhibited
- condescending
- saucy
- overweening
- complacent
- egotistical
- blusterous
- patronizing
- toploftical
- snooty
- swaggering
- peremptory
- brash
- highfalutin
- cocky
- blustery
- immodest
- egoistic
- snobby
- self-asserting
- dominating
- vainglorious
- lofty
- bombastic
- disdainful
- self-satisfied
- boastful
- vain
- self-conceited
- braggy
- self-complacent
- stuck-up
- egotistic
- impertinent
- self-centered
- egocentric
- impudent
- magisterial
- proud
- self-assertive
- narcissistic
- toplofty
- snobbish
- lordly
- presuming
- bossy
- braggart
- pontifical
- prideful
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, high-hat, chesty, important, haughty, supercilious, high-handed, masterful, imperious, uppity
unpretentious, shy, modest, diffident, modest, lowly, bashful, unpretentious, timid, sheepish
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.
