Associations to the word «Pompous»

Pictures for the word «Pompous»

Wiktionary

POMPOUS, adjective. Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.

Dictionary definition

POMPOUS, adjective. Puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek.
POMPOUS, adjective. Characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display.

Wise words

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Florence Scovel Shinn