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pompous 音標拼音: [p'ɑmpəs] a. 傲慢的,自大的,夸大的,豪華的 傲慢的,自大的,誇大的,豪華的 pompous adj 1: puffed up with vanity; " a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; " overblown oratory"; " a pompous speech"; " pseudo- scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek [ synonym: { grandiloquent}, { overblown}, { pompous}, { pontifical}, { portentous}] 2: characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display [ synonym: { pompous}, { ceremonious}] Pompous \ Pomp" ous\, a. [ F. pompeux, L. pomposus. See { Pomp}.] 1. Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style. " Pompous in high presumption." -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] he pompous vanity of the old schoolmistress. -- Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster] -- { Pom" ous* ly}, adv. -- { Pomp" ous* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 147 Moby Thesaurus words for " pompous": Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Latinate, affected, arrogant, assured, aureate, awkward, bedizened, big- sounding, bloated, boastful, bombastic, braggart, ceremonial, ceremonious, cocksure, conceited, confident, conventional, convinced, convoluted, cramped, cumbrous, decided, declamatory, decorous, determined, egotistical, elephantine, elevated, embroidered, euphuistic, exhibitionist, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flatulent, flaunting, flossy, flowery, forced, formal, fulsome, fustian, garish, gassy, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, guinde, halting, haughty, heavy, hieratic, high- flowing, high- flown, high- flying, high- hat, high- sounding, highfalutin, hoity- toity, hubristic, imperious, important, inflated, inkhorn, labored, labyrinthine, leaden, lexiphanic, liturgic, lofty, lumbering, lurid, magisterial, magniloquent, meretricious, narcissistic, ornate, orotund, ostentatious, overbearing, overblown, overconfident, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, oversure, overweening, overwrought, pedantic, persuaded, poised, ponderous, pontifical, positive, presumptuous, pretentious, proud, puffy, reassured, rhetorical, ritual, ritualistic, sacerdotal, secure, self- assured, self- centered, self- conceited, self- confident, self- important, self- reliant, selfish, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, sesquipedalian, showy, snobbish, snooty, snotty, solemn, sonorous, stately, stiff, stilted, stuck- up, stuffy, sure, swollen, tall, tortuous, tumid, turgid, unafraid, undoubting, unfaltering, unhesitating, unwavering, unwieldy, uppity, vain, vainglorious, well- mannered, windy
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