Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: pompous
IPA transcription: [p'ɑmpəs]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous
    Meaning: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
Usage examples
  • I'm blessed if I ever heard of two such pompous old frauds as you and I, Captain!
  • Aramis, confiding in the address of Bazin, made a pompous eulogium on his candidate.
  • But intimacy is impossible, in most cases, with this grave, pompous, and awful being.
  • Lord Fawn was pompous, slow, dull, and careful; but even he had given way to it at once.
  • "There are people here in whom you are interested?" To the girl his voice sounded pompous and heavy.
  • Her carriage dashed into the garden in a most pompous style, and drove right up to the southern front of the building.
  • I, for one, go to sleep under them." And Mr. Ellis drew himself up with a pompous air as he went into the library, whither his wife presently followed.
  • They were, at length, very much surprised to see a pompous edition of it in folio, dedicated to the Princess Dowager of Wales, by a Dr. Douglas, as his own.
  • For "fine sermons" Vincent had the greatest contempt; he would use his merry wit to make fun of the pompous preachers whose only thought was to impress their audience with an idea of their own eloquence.
  • In pompous language, however, which jumbled one sentence into another, and at length grew disconnected, he gave me to understand that I was to lead the children altogether away from the Casino, and out into the park. Finally his anger exploded, and he added sharply: