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