Category:Pompous

Pomp"ous, a. Etym: [f. pompeux, l. pomposus. See pomp.]

1. Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a Pompous procession.

2. Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous Manners; a pompous style. "pompous in high presumption." Chaucer. He pompous vanity of the old schoolmistress. Thackeray. -- pom"ous*ly, adv. -- pomp"ous*ness, n.