Definition of pompous

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Pompous (a.) Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession..

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Parade :: Parade (v. t.) Pompous show; formal display or exhibition.
Pompous :: Pompous (a.) Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession..
Fustian :: Fustian (a.) Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history..
Chaperon :: Chaperon (n.) A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.
Magniloquent :: Magniloquent (a.) Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent.
Spout :: Spout (v. t.) To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
Turgid :: Turgid (a.) Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking..
Farce :: Farce (v. t.) To swell out; to render pompous.
High-sounding :: High-sounding (a.) Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles..
Harangue :: Harangue (n.) A speech addressed to a large public assembly; a popular oration; a loud address a multitude; in a bad sense, a noisy or pompous speech; declamation; ranting..
Strut :: Strut (n.) The act of strutting; a pompous step or walk.
Altiloquence :: Altiloquence (n.) Lofty speech; pompous language.
Showiness :: Showiness (n.) The quality or state of being showy; pompousness; great parade; ostentation.
Swagger :: Swagger (v. i.) To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner..
Prance :: Prance (v. i.) To walk or strut about in a pompous, showy manner, or with warlike parade..
Cavalcade :: Cavalcade (n.) A procession of persons on horseback; a formal, pompous march of horsemen by way of parade..
Turgent :: Turgent (a.) Inflated; bombastic; turgid; pompous.
Emblazon :: Emblazon (v. t.) To deck in glaring colors; to set off conspicuously; to display pompously; to decorate.
Stime :: Stilty (a.) Unreasonably elevated; pompous; stilted; as, a stilty style..
Stiltify :: Stilted (a.) Elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a stilted style; stilted declamation..
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