English-Thai Dictionary

pompous

ADJ ขี้โอ่  คุยโต  พูด เกิน จริง  haughty snobby elitist humble ke-o

 

pompous

ADJ โอ่อ่า  หรูหรา  o-ar

 

pompously

ADV อย่าง คุยโม้ โอ้อวด  boastfully conceitedly pretentiously humbly modestly yang-kuai-mo-ao-aud

 

pompously

ADV อย่าง หรูหรา  yang-ru-ra

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

POMPOUS

a. 1. Displaying pomp; showy with grandeur; splendid; magnificent; as a pompous procession; a pompous triumph.
2. Ostentatious; boastful; as a pompous account of private adventures.

 

POMPOUSLY

adv. With great parade or display; magnificently; splendidly; ostentatiously.

 

POMPOUSNESS

n.The state of being pompous; magnificence; splendor; great display of show; ostentatiousness.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

pompous

pomp ous |ˈpämpəs ˈpɑmpəs | ▶adjective affectedly and irritatingly grand, solemn, or self-important: a pompous ass who pretends he knows everything. • archaic characterized by pomp or splendor: there were many processions and other pompous shows. DERIVATIVES pomp ous ly adverb, pomp ous ness noun ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French pompeux ‘full of grandeur, ’ from late Latin pomposus, from pompa ‘pomp. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

pompous

pom |pous |ˈpɒmpəs | ▶adjective 1 affectedly grand, solemn, or self-important: a pompous ass who pretends he knows everything. 2 archaic characterized by pomp or splendour: processions and other pompous shows. DERIVATIVES pompously adverb, pompousness noun ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French pompeux ‘full of grandeur ’, from late Latin pomposus, from pompa ‘pomp ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

pompous

pompous adjective pompous officials: self-important, imperious, overbearing, domineering, magisterial, pontifical, sententious, grandiose, affected, pretentious, puffed up, arrogant, vain, haughty, proud, conceited, egotistic, supercilious, condescending, patronizing; informal snooty, uppity, uppish. ANTONYMS modest.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

pompous

pompous adjective 1 a pompous official who kept quoting the rules: 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. ANTONYMS modest, humble, self-effacing. 2 pompous language: bombastic, high-sounding, high-flown, lofty, turgid, grandiloquent, magniloquent, ornate, overblown, inflated, rhetorical, oratorical, declamatory, sonorous, portentous, pedantic, boastful, boasting, bragging, braggart, Falstaffian; informal highfalutin, windy; rare fustian, euphuistic, orotund.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

pompous

pomp ous /pɑ́mpəs |pɔ́m -/形容詞 1 ｟非難して ｠〈人が 〉気取った, 尊大な ; 〈言葉 態度などが 〉仰々しい, 大そうな .2 〈建物 儀式などが 〉堂々たる, 壮大な .～ly 副詞