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Webster 1913 Edition
Pompous
1.
Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent;
as, a
. pompous
procession2.
Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious;
“Pompous in high presumption.” as,
pompous
manners; a pompous
style. Chaucer.
he
– pompous
vanity of the old schoolmistress. Thackeray.
Pom′ous-ly
, adv.
Pomp′ous-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Pompous
POMP'OUS
, a.1.
Displaying pomp; showy with grandeur; splendid; magnificent; as a pompous procession; a pompous triumph.2.
Ostentatious; boastful; as a pompous account of private adventures.Definition 2024
pompous
pompous
English
Adjective
pompous (comparative more pompous, superlative most pompous)
- Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.
- 1848, Thackeray, William Makepeace, Vanity Fair, Bantam Classics (1997), 16:
- "Not that the parting speech caused Amelia to philosophise, or that it armed her in any way with a calmness, the result of argument; but it was intolerably dull, pompous, and tedious; and having the fear of her schoolmistress greatly before her eyes, Miss Samuel did not venture, in her presence, to give way to any ebullitions of private grief."
- 1848, Thackeray, William Makepeace, Vanity Fair, Bantam Classics (1997), 16:
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affectedly grand
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