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| 1. | [ adjective ] puffed up with vanity | |
| Synonyms: | overblown pontifical portentous grandiloquent | |
| Examples: | "a grandiloquent and boastful manner" "overblown oratory" "a pompous speech" "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek |
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| Related terms: | pretentious | |
| Similar spelling: |
pompously pomposity |
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