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