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