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