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