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Definition of pompus

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1. pompous [ a ] puffed up with vanity
Examples: "a grandiloquent and boastful manner" "overblown oratory" "a pompous speech" "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek

Used in print:

(Hampton Stone, The Man Who Looked Death...)

`` The past I leave to historians '' , Felix intoned , demonstrating that he could be pompous as_well_as happy .

Synonyms pompous overblown pontifical portentous grandiloquent Related Terms pretentious

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