meaning of pompous
1. Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession.
2. Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style.
3. puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
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