Synonyms for Pompous:

• adj.

  •affected (adjective)
  • frauder,
  • hammiest,
  • most playacting,
  • most put-on,
  • in-sincerer,
  • more puton,
  • more put-on,
  • simulated,
  • high falutin',
  • un natural,
  • sham,
  • in sincerest,
  • more playacting,
  • more faked,
  • most put on,
  • more counterfeited,
  • puton,
  • more affected,
  • pre-tended,
  • insincere,
  • over-done,
  • fraud,
  • hammier,
  • over done,
  • most counterfeited,
  • fraudest,
  • most faked,
  • pre tended,
  • self conscious,
  • hamer,
  • selfconscious,
  • schmaltzy,
  • in-sincerest,
  • shallow,
  • more put on,
  • shallower,
  • un-natural,
  • in sincerer,
  • most puton,
  • in-sincere,
  • in sincere,
  • hamest.
  •arrogant (adjective)
  • high mighty,
  • high-handed,
  • in solent,
  • insolent,
  • sniffier,
  • more cold shoulder,
  • smartiest,
  • most cold-shoulder,
  • more know-it-all,
  • most coldshoulder,
  • most swaggering,
  • most biggety,
  • know it all,
  • more biggety,
  • most know-it-all,
  • in-solent,
  • puffed up,
  • over bearing,
  • peremptory,
  • Over-bearing,
  • high handed,
  • most bragging,
  • smartier,
  • more coldshoulder,
  • more know it all,
  • most know it all,
  • more cold-shoulder,
  • sniffiest,
  • more bragging,
  • more swaggering,
  • most cold shoulder.
  •arrogant, egotistic (adjective)
  • highfaluting,
  • stuck-up,
  • selfish,
  • puffy,
  • orotund,
  • high and mighty,
  • fustian,
  • important,
  • sonorous,
  • self-centered,
  • narcissistic,
  • flowery,
  • Flaunting,
  • presumptuous.
  •august (adjective)
  • loftier,
  • re-splendent,
  • high ranking,
  • highminded,
  • re splendent,
  • high minded,
  • highranking,
  • impressive.
  •big (adjective)
  • highsounding,
  • high sounding.
  •bloated (adjective)
  • most tumefied,
  • more intumescent,
  • most intumescent,
  • in tumescent,
  • in-tumescent,
  • more tumefied.
  •boastful (adjective)
  • self-applauding,
  • exultant,
  • hot stuff,
  • swollen-headed,
  • self-aggrandizing,
  • full of hot air,
  • on ego trip,
  • too big for one's britches,
  • Strutting,
  • loudmouth,
  • big-headed,
  • smart alecky.
  •chichi (adjective)
  • frilliest,
  • frillier.
  •dictatorial (adjective)
  • more crack the whip,
  • more iron-handed,
  • un limited,
  • most iron handed,
  • iron handed,
  • un restricted,
  • most iron-handed,
  • most crack-the-whip,
  • most dictative,
  • more dictative,
  • more ironhanded,
  • un-restricted,
  • doctrinaire,
  • most crack the whip,
  • un-limited,
  • most ironhanded,
  • more iron handed,
  • stern,
  • more crack-the-whip.
  •egocentric (adjective)
  • more self interested,
  • more megalomaniac,
  • most selfloving,
  • selfloving,
  • self absorbed,
  • most selfconcerned,
  • most individualist,
  • more individualist,
  • most self concerned,
  • selfcentered,
  • more self loving,
  • wrapped up oneself,
  • most selfinterested,
  • most self interested,
  • more self-interested,
  • selfinterested,
  • most self-interested,
  • self loving,
  • self concerned,
  • self interested,
  • most megalomaniac,
  • more self-loving,
  • more self concerned,
  • selfabsorbed,
  • egomaniacal,
  • selfconcerned,
  • wrapped in oneself,
  • more selfconcerned,
  • wrapped oneself,
  • more selfinterested,
  • more self-concerned,
  • most self loving,
  • more selfloving,
  • most self-concerned,
  • self centered,
  • self indulgent,
  • selfindulgent,
  • most self-loving,
  • self-loving.
  •egotistic (adjective)
  • in-born,
  • in-grained,
  • in born.
  •egotistic/egoistic (adjective)
  • innerdirected,
  • most self admiring,
  • most self-admiring,
  • stuck oneself,
  • more self admiring,
  • self admiring,
  • more self-admiring,
  • personal,
  • more inner directed,
  • most boasting,
  • most innerdirected,
  • selfadmiring,
  • more innerdirected,
  • most inner directed,
  • more selfadmiring,
  • obsessive,
  • inner-directed,
  • more obsessive,
  • most inner-directed,
  • inner directed,
  • most selfadmiring,
  • more inner-directed,
  • more boasting,
  • most obsessive.
  •exalted (adjective)
  • more highest-ranking,
  • sub-lime,
  • top ranking,
  • up-lifting,
  • most highest-ranking,
  • topranking,
  • most highestranking,
  • highest ranking,
  • more top ranking,
  • most top ranking,
  • out standing,
  • up lifting,
  • more topranking,
  • most top-ranking,
  • most ideal,
  • top-drawer,
  • highestranking,
  • most highest ranking,
  • most topranking,
  • more highest ranking,
  • topdrawer,
  • more top-ranking,
  • more highestranking,
  • sub lime.
  •genteel (adjective)
  • well-bred,
  • prudish,
  • old-maidish,
  • wellmannered,
  • distingue.
  •grand (adjective)
  • awe inspiring,
  • most dynamite,
  • more luxurious,
  • grandest,
  • fabbest,
  • un-real,
  • very good,
  • aweinspiring,
  • more smashing,
  • more dynamite,
  • fabber,
  • firstrate,
  • most smashing,
  • first rate.
  •grandiloquent (adjective)
  • talltalking,
  • most euphistic,
  • big talking,
  • more tall talking,
  • more big-talking,
  • most tall-talking,
  • high flown,
  • most tall talking,
  • more euphistic,
  • bigtalking,
  • more talltalking,
  • most talltalking,
  • most big talking,
  • more bigtalking,
  • tall talking,
  • most bigtalking,
  • more tall-talking,
  • more big talking,
  • most big-talking,
  • highflown.
  •grandiose (adjective)
  • over-whelming,
  • un fathomable,
  • over whelming.
  •individualistic (adjective)
  • individualistic.
  •inflated (adjective)
  • more amplified,
  • dis tended,
  • more rhapsodical,
  • ex tended,
  • more euphuistic,
  • more aggrandized,
  • more augmented,
  • over estimated,
  • most overestimated,
  • more spread,
  • more overestimated,
  • more dilated,
  • most magnified,
  • more magnified,
  • filled,
  • most surcharged,
  • ex-tended,
  • most stretched,
  • sur-charged,
  • more surcharged,
  • most dilated,
  • more stretched,
  • most rhapsodical,
  • over-estimated,
  • dis-tended,
  • most dropsical,
  • most spread,
  • most euphuistic,
  • sur charged,
  • most amplified,
  • most aggrandized,
  • most augmented,
  • more dropsical.
  •inkhorn (adjective)
  • most formalistic,
  • more formalistic.
  •la-di-da (adjective)
  • la di da.
  •magisterial (adjective)
  • judicial.
  •majestic (adjective)
  • mindblowing,
  • mind blowing,
  • out this world,
  • out of world,
  • out world.
  •old-maidish (adjective)
  • oldmaidish.
  •oratorical (adjective)
  • stagiest,
  • stagy,
  • stagier,
  • gesticulative,
  • senatorial,
  • stylistic.
  •orotund (adjective)
  • re sounding,
  • re-sounding,
  • re sonant,
  • re-sonant.
  •ostentatious (adjective)
  • flagrant,
  • tinsel,
  • peacocky,
  • splashy,
  • exhibitionistic,
  • jaunty,
  • blatant,
  • forced,
  • rakish,
  • formal,
  • dashing,
  • fussy,
  • opulent,
  • gaudy,
  • uptown,
  • flashy,
  • garish,
  • histrionic,
  • sensational,
  • ornate,
  • flamboyant,
  • glittery,
  • flourishing,
  • snazzy,
  • shameless,
  • dramatic.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • Self-interested,
  • tumid,
  • grandiloquent,
  • iron-handed,
  • frilly,
  • donnish,
  • uppity,
  • self-involved,
  • august,
  • highest-ranking,
  • queenliest,
  • majestic,
  • Inkhorn,
  • tall-talking,
  • big-talking,
  • cold-shoulder,
  • Euphuistic,
  • stiff,
  • pontifical,
  • egoistical,
  • grand,
  • dictatorial,
  • proud,
  • la-di-da,
  • egotistic,
  • magnificent,
  • dropsical,
  • exalted,
  • hotshot,
  • stately,
  • high-falutin',
  • prideful,
  • snotty,
  • genteel,
  • campy,
  • stuffy,
  • on an ego trip,
  • pumped up,
  • something else,
  • ironhanded,
  • arrogant,
  • hammy,
  • top drawer,
  • out-standing,
  • sniffy,
  • wrapped up in oneself,
  • Magnific,
  • bloated,
  • magniloquent,
  • windy,
  • dictative,
  • showy,
  • crack the whip,
  • over-nice,
  • Rhapsodical,
  • schoolish,
  • stuck on oneself,
  • oratorical,
  • rhetorical,
  • megalomaniac,
  • campiest,
  • Tumefied,
  • Surcharged,
  • firstclass,
  • snobbish,
  • biggety,
  • formalistic,
  • snooty,
  • egotistical,
  • operatic,
  • coldshoulder,
  • self-seeking,
  • nit-picking,
  • stilted,
  • first class,
  • fab,
  • highfalutin',
  • splurgy,
  • head-strong,
  • smug,
  • overestimated,
  • affected,
  • crack-the-whip,
  • vainglorious,
  • chichi,
  • big,
  • Intumescent,
  • flatulent,
  • overblown,
  • egocentric,
  • throwing weight around,
  • boastful,
  • over-confident,
  • self-contented,
  • Pedantical,
  • over-wrought,
  • campier,
  • overfamiliar,
  • euphistic,
  • self-concerned,
  • top-ranking,
  • sumptuous,
  • self-serving,
  • pedantic,
  • splendiferous,
  • self-admiring,
  • egoistic,
  • hyperbolic.
  •overblown (adjective)
  • hyped up.
  •overweening (adjective)
  • highhanded.
  •pedantic (adjective)
  • more hairsplitting,
  • most hairsplitting,
  • more nit picking,
  • more overnice,
  • most nit picking,
  • more nit-picking,
  • most nit-picking,
  • most schoolish,
  • nit picking,
  • overnice,
  • more donnish,
  • most overnice,
  • most donnish,
  • over nice,
  • more schoolish.
  •presumptuous (adjective)
  • most overfamiliar,
  • selfassured,
  • self satisfied,
  • pre-sumptuous,
  • over-familiar,
  • self assertive,
  • more overfamiliar,
  • over confident,
  • selfassertive,
  • self assured,
  • over familiar,
  • self-assertive,
  • selfsatisfied,
  • pre sumptuous.
  •pretentious (adjective)
  • too-too,
  • overambitious.
  •prideful (adjective)
  • on one high horse,
  • on ones high horse,
  • on one's high horse.
  •proud (adjective)
  • dismissive,
  • more dismissive,
  • high-and-mighty,
  • self-respecting.
  •rhetorical (adjective)
  • more embellished,
  • silver tongued,
  • most embellished,
  • most hyperbolic,
  • embellished,
  • silvertongued,
  • more hyperbolic.
  •self-important (adjective)
  • selfimportant,
  • self important.
  •self-involved (adjective)
  • selfinvolved,
  • self involved.
  •self-respecting (adjective)
  • selfrespecting,
  • self respecting.
  •self-seeking (adjective)
  • selfseeking,
  • self seeking.
  •self-serving (adjective)
  • selfserving,
  • self serving.
  •sententious (adjective)
  • moralistic,
  • epigrammatic.
  •showy (adjective)
  • most splendiferous,
  • more screaming,
  • most screaming,
  • flasher,
  • flashest,
  • more splendiferous.
  •smug (adjective)
  • more self contented,
  • selfcontented,
  • most self contented,
  • more self-contented,
  • self contented,
  • more selfcontented,
  • most self-contented,
  • most selfcontented,
  • holier than thou,
  • selfrighteous,
  • self righteous,
  • most hotshot,
  • more hotshot.
  •snobbish (adjective)
  • putting on airs,
  • uppish,
  • high hat,
  • high-hat.
  •snooty (adjective)
  • on high horse,
  • on a high horse,
  • snootiest.
  •snotty (adjective)
  • snobby,
  • snobbiest,
  • la-de-da.
  •stately (adjective)
  • queenlier,
  • de-liberate,
  • queenly,
  • de liberate.
  •stiff (adjective)
  • in-flexible,
  • un easy,
  • un gainly,
  • un-easier,
  • more unrelaxed,
  • most hardheaded,
  • in tractable,
  • un-gainly,
  • un gainliest,
  • un relaxed,
  • un-graceful,
  • un graceful,
  • in-tractable,
  • un easiest,
  • un gainlier,
  • in flexible,
  • un-easiest,
  • most unrelaxed,
  • un-relaxed,
  • hardheaded,
  • un easier,
  • unrelaxed,
  • un relenting.
  •straitlaced (adjective)
  • priggish.
  •stuck-up (adjective)
  • stuckup,
  • nose in the air,
  • nose in air,
  • nose air,
  • nose the air.
  •stuffy (adjective)
  • prim and proper,
  • humorless.
  •swellheaded (adjective)
  • swellheaded.
  •theatrical (adjective)
  • more staged,
  • most staged,
  • most vaudeville,
  • showest,
  • more thespian,
  • more operatic,
  • most operatic,
  • most thespian,
  • most amateur,
  • more amateur,
  • more vaudeville.
  •tumid (adjective)
  • protuberant.
  •uppish (adjective)
  • most elitist,
  • more elitist.
  •uppity (adjective)
  • up pity,
  • up-pity,
  • high falutin.
  •vainglorious (adjective)
  • most high-and-mighty.
  •windy (adjective)
  • palaverous,
  • longwinded,
  • more palaverous,
  • long winded,
  • most palaverous.

• n.

  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • disdain,
  • self-satisfied,
  • jumped-up,
  • say,
  • full,
  • highfalutin,
  • toffee-nosed,
  • ostentatious,
  • boor,
  • thumb,
  • inflated,
  • portentous,
  • nose,
  • above,
  • dignity,
  • overbearing,
  • opinionated,
  • supercilious,
  • smarty-pants,
  • bumptious,
  • immodest,
  • cocky,
  • infra dig,
  • self-importance,
  • hifalutin,
  • condescend,
  • brash,
  • narcissist,
  • turgid,
  • grandiose,
  • bigheaded,
  • swollen head,
  • proudly,
  • smart mouth,
  • self-important,
  • bigheadedness,
  • sententious,
  • superior,
  • tin god,
  • stand,
  • magisterial,
  • talk,
  • grandiose See bombastic,
  • stuffed-shirted,
  • theatrical,
  • revolve,
  • patronize,
  • lordly,
  • fancy,
  • condescending,
  • ceremonious,
  • know,
  • imposing,
  • flatter,
  • lord,
  • self-appointed,
  • swanky,
  • vain,
  • ponderous,
  • deign,
  • cocksure,
  • lofty,
  • conceited,
  • pretentious,
  • overweening,
  • cock,
  • sniff,
  • up,
  • bombastic,
  • imperious,
  • snook,
  • preen,
  • cock of the walk,
  • throw,
  • dog,
  • high-flown,
  • hoity-toity,
  • high,
  • haughty,
  • cut,
  • lucifer,
  • patronizing,
  • own,
  • smart alec,
  • air,
  • smugly,
  • self-opinionated,
  • officious,
  • know-all,
  • stuck up,
  • know-it-all,
  • clever-clever,
  • high-falutin,
  • clever,
  • delusion,
  • disrespect,
  • de haut en bas.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • puffed-up.
  •artificial
  • high-sounding.
  •bombastic
  • mouthy,
  • gassy.
  •haughty
  • toplofty.

Paraphrases for Pompous:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    overblown, grand.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    grandiose, grandiloquent, high-flown, high-sounding.

Antonyms for Pompous:

• adj.

  • arrogant, egotistic
    humble, unselfish, modest, plain, unassuming, kind, simple, dull.
  • Other antonyms:
    deferential, diffident, sheepish, mousy, homely, subdued, lowly, yielding, overmodest, acquiescent, unassertive, cringing, retiring, quiet, passive, unaggressive, shrinking, cowering, reserved, Self-reproving, unobtrusive, compliant, timid, introverted, bashful, shy, submissive.

• n.

  • other_words
    self-effacing.