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