Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pompous"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pompous \Pomp"ous\, a. [F. pompeux, L. pomposus. See {Pomp}.]
1. Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur;
magnificent; as, a pompous procession.
2. Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as,
pompous manners; a pompous style. ``Pompous in high
presumption.'' --Chaucer.
he pompous vanity of the old schoolmistress.
--Thackeray.
-- {Pom"ous*ly}, adv. -- {Pomp"ous*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
pompous
adj : puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful
manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech";
"pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"-
Newsweek [syn: {grandiloquent}, {overblown}, {pontifical},
{portentous}]
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