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