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