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

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne