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