Definition of pompous

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Pompous (a.) Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style..

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Inflated :: Inflated (a.) Turgid; swelling; puffed up; bombastic; pompous; as, an inflated style..
Emblazon :: Emblazon (v. t.) To deck in glaring colors; to set off conspicuously; to display pompously; to decorate.
Pompous :: Pompous (a.) Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style..
Consequential :: Consequential (a.) Assuming or exhibiting an air of consequence; pretending to importance; pompous; self-important; as, a consequential man. See Consequence, n., 4..
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..
Spout :: Spout (v. i.) To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner..
Chaperon :: Chaperon (n.) A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.
Crack :: Crack (v. i.) To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with of..
Altiloquence :: Altiloquence (n.) Lofty speech; pompous language.
Owlism :: Owlism (n.) Affected wisdom; pompous dullness.
Turgescency :: Turgescency (n.) Empty magnificence or pompousness; inflation; bombast; turgidity.
Cavalcade :: Cavalcade (n.) A procession of persons on horseback; a formal, pompous march of horsemen by way of parade..
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..
Bloated :: Bloated (p. a.) Distended beyond the natural or usual size, as by the presence of water, serum, etc.; turgid; swollen; as, a bloated face. Also, puffed up with pride; pompous..
Grandiloquent :: Grandiloquent (a.) Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
High-sounding :: High-sounding (a.) Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles..
Magniloquence :: Magniloquence (n.) The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse; grandiloquence.
Magnificent :: Magnificent (a.) Grand in appearance; exhibiting grandeur or splendor; splendid' pompous.
Fustian :: Fustian (a.) Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history..
Altiloquent :: Altiloquent (a.) High-sounding; pompous in speech.
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