pompous (adj.)

  1. characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display

    [ Syn: ceremonious ]

  2. puffed up with vanity; a grandiloquent and boastful manner; overblown oratory; a pompous speech; pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey- Newsweek

    [ Syn: grandiloquent , overblown , pontifical , portentous ]

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