English > pompous: 2 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | Puffed up with vanity. |
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| Example | "a pompous speech" |
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| Synonyms | grandiloquent, overblown, pontifical, portentous |
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| Broader | pretentious | making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction |
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| Spanish | altisonante, ampuloso, campanudo, grandilocuente, grandílocuo, hinchado, pomposo |
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| Catalan | altiloqüent, altisonant, ampul·lós, campanut, grandil·loqüent, inflat, pompós |
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| Nouns | pomp | cheap or pretentious / pretentious or vain display |
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| pomposity, pompousness | lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity |
| Adverbs | pompously | in a pompous manner |
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