英语词汇“pompous”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

pompous

/ˈpɒmpəs

adjective

1Affectedly grand, solemn, or self-important: a pompous ass who pretends he knows everything...

You also said that your Dad always taught you that being pompous and self-important was just about the greatest sin of all.
Keith was painted as patronising and pompous, with a grandiose idea of her own importance.
Still, many Panelists who accepted the usage also remarked that it was pretentious or pompous.

Synonyms

self-important, imperious, overbearing, domineering, magisterial, pontifical, sententious, grandiose, affected, stiff, pretentious, puffed up, arrogant, vain, haughty, proud, conceited, egotistic, supercilious, condescending, patronizing

informal snooty, uppity, uppish

bombastic, high-sounding, high-flown, lofty, turgid, grandiloquent, magniloquent, ornate, overblown, overripe, inflated, rhetorical, oratorical, declamatory, sonorous, portentous, pedantic, boastful, boasting, bragging, braggart, Falstaffian

informal highfalutin, windy

rare fustian, euphuistic, orotund

2 archaic Characterized by pomp or splendour: processions and other pompous shows...

The pompous, splendid Library, on the other hand, visually overwhelms its contents.
Walton is splendidly pompous and circumstantial when extolling the Babylonian gods.

Derivatives

pompously

/ˈpɒmpəsli

/ adverb ...

Indeed, the pompously Latin motto of the Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland is ‘fiant secundum descriptionem bona’ - let the product accord with its description.
There is a story in your family in which a local squire once reminded your grandfather rather pompously that ‘I came over with the Normans.’
Carlton is bending facts here in an area he often pompously claims first-hand knowledge.

pompousness

/ˈpɒmpəsnəs/ noun ...

I'm all for good satire, the sharp and perceptive deflating of pretense, pompousness or deceit.
The five-day-long 2003 ceremony was in fact a festival in which all the pompousness and luxurious attitude of the ashram was reflected.
At the same time he lacked the pompousness and standoffish attitude which is the way of some foreign correspondents.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French pompeux 'full of grandeur', from late Latin pomposus, from pompa 'pomp'.

单词	pompous
释义	pompous /ˈpɒmpəs / adjective 1Affectedly grand, solemn, or self-important: a pompous ass who pretends he knows everything... You also said that your Dad always taught you that being pompous and self-important was just about the greatest sin of all. Keith was painted as patronising and pompous, with a grandiose idea of her own importance. Still, many Panelists who accepted the usage also remarked that it was pretentious or pompous. Synonyms self-important, imperious, overbearing, domineering, magisterial, pontifical, sententious, grandiose, affected, stiff, pretentious, puffed up, arrogant, vain, haughty, proud, conceited, egotistic, supercilious, condescending, patronizing informal snooty, uppity, uppish bombastic, high-sounding, high-flown, lofty, turgid, grandiloquent, magniloquent, ornate, overblown, overripe, inflated, rhetorical, oratorical, declamatory, sonorous, portentous, pedantic, boastful, boasting, bragging, braggart, Falstaffian informal highfalutin, windy rare fustian, euphuistic, orotund 2 archaic Characterized by pomp or splendour: processions and other pompous shows... The pompous, splendid Library, on the other hand, visually overwhelms its contents. Walton is splendidly pompous and circumstantial when extolling the Babylonian gods. Derivatives pompously /ˈpɒmpəsli / adverb ... Indeed, the pompously Latin motto of the Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland is ‘fiant secundum descriptionem bona’ - let the product accord with its description. There is a story in your family in which a local squire once reminded your grandfather rather pompously that ‘I came over with the Normans.’ Carlton is bending facts here in an area he often pompously claims first-hand knowledge. pompousness /ˈpɒmpəsnəs/ noun ... I'm all for good satire, the sharp and perceptive deflating of pretense, pompousness or deceit. The five-day-long 2003 ceremony was in fact a festival in which all the pompousness and luxurious attitude of the ashram was reflected. At the same time he lacked the pompousness and standoffish attitude which is the way of some foreign correspondents. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French pompeux 'full of grandeur', from late Latin pomposus, from pompa 'pomp'.
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