Dictionary Entry
pontifical
pontifical is a 10-letter English word with 8 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of or pertaining to a pontiff, or high priest; as, pontifical authority; hence, belonging to the pope; papal. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 21 · 8 senses
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- 1adjective
Of or pertaining to a pontiff, or high priest; as, pontifical authority; hence, belonging to the pope; papal.
- 2adjective
Of or pertaining to the building of bridges.
- 3noun
A book containing the offices, or formulas, used by a pontiff.
- 4noun
The dress and ornaments of a pontiff.
- 5noun
the vestments and other insignia of a pontiff (especially a bishop)
- 6adjective
puffed up with vanity- Newsweek
"a grandiloquent and boastful manner"
"overblown oratory"
- 7adjective
denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops
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- 8adjective
proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles
"papal dispensation"
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