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