Definition of pompous

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

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Johnsonese :: "Johnsonese (n.) The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson, or one formed in imitation of it; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words..
Stride :: Stride (v. t.) To walk with long steps, especially in a measured or pompous manner..
Inflated :: Inflated (a.) Turgid; swelling; puffed up; bombastic; pompous; as, an inflated style..
Tumid :: Tumid (a.) Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style..
Turgent :: Turgent (a.) Inflated; bombastic; turgid; pompous.
Farce :: Farce (v. t.) To swell out; to render pompous.
Stiltify :: Stilted (a.) Elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a stilted style; stilted declamation..
Magnificent :: Magnificent (a.) Grand in appearance; exhibiting grandeur or splendor; splendid' pompous.
Crack :: Crack (v. i.) To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with of..
Cavalcade :: Cavalcade (n.) A procession of persons on horseback; a formal, pompous march of horsemen by way of parade..
Pompatic :: Pompatic (a.) Pompous.
Pompous :: Pompous (a.) Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style..
Declaim :: Declaim (v. i.) To speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant..
Splendid :: Splendid (a.) Showy; magnificent; sumptuous; pompous; as, a splendid palace; a splendid procession or pageant..
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..
Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To act in a pompous, ostentatious, or arrogant manner; to strut; to look big..
Owlism :: Owlism (n.) Affected wisdom; pompous dullness.
Magniloquence :: Magniloquence (n.) The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse; grandiloquence.
Turgescency :: Turgescency (n.) Empty magnificence or pompousness; inflation; bombast; turgidity.
Triumph :: Triumph (n.) Hence, any triumphal procession; a pompous exhibition; a stately show or pageant..
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