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