pompous

pompous is a 7-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 17 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession.
2. adjective. Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style.
3. adjective. puffed up with vanity- Newsweek

   "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"

   "overblown oratory"

   Synonyms: grandiloquent, overblown, pontifical, portentous

4. adjective. characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display

   Synonyms: ceremonious

Synonyms

grandiloquent, overblown, pontifical, portentous, ceremonious

Common word forms

pompously, pompousness

Words from these letters

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