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