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
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.