What is another word for pompous?
500 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ pˈɒmpəs], [ pˈɒmpəs], [ p_ˈɒ_m_p_ə_s]Table of Contents
Similar words for pompous:- affected (adjective)
- arrogant (adjective)
- arrogant, egotistic (adjective)
- august (adjective)
- big (adjective)
- bloated (adjective)
- boastful (adjective)
- chichi (adjective)
- dictatorial (adjective)
- egocentric (adjective)
- egotistic (adjective)
- egotistic/egoistic (adjective)
- exalted (adjective)
- genteel (adjective)
- grand (adjective)
- grandiloquent (adjective)
- grandiose (adjective)
- individualistic (adjective)
- inflated (adjective)
- inkhorn (adjective)
- la-di-da (adjective)
- magisterial (adjective)
- majestic (adjective)
- old-maidish (adjective)
- oratorical (adjective)
- orotund (adjective)
- ostentatious (adjective)
- overblown (adjective)
- overweening (adjective)
- pedantic (adjective)
- presumptuous (adjective)
- pretentious (adjective)
- prideful (adjective)
- proud (adjective)
- rhetorical (adjective)
- self-important (adjective)
- self-involved (adjective)
- self-respecting (adjective)
- self-seeking (adjective)
- self-serving (adjective)
- sententious (adjective)
- showy (adjective)
- smug (adjective)
- snobbish (adjective)
- snooty (adjective)
- snotty (adjective)
- stately (adjective)
- stiff (adjective)
- straitlaced (adjective)
- stuck-up (adjective)
- stuffy (adjective)
- swellheaded (adjective)
- theatrical (adjective)
- tumid (adjective)
- uppish (adjective)
- uppity (adjective)
- vainglorious (adjective)
- windy (adjective)
- other synonyms
- artificial
- bombastic
- haughty
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.
- 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.
- highfaluting,
- stuck-up,
- selfish,
- puffy,
- orotund,
- high and mighty,
- fustian,
- important,
- sonorous,
- self-centered,
- narcissistic,
- flowery,
- Flaunting,
- presumptuous.
- loftier,
- re-splendent,
- high ranking,
- highminded,
- re splendent,
- high minded,
- highranking,
- impressive.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- awe inspiring,
- most dynamite,
- more luxurious,
- grandest,
- fabbest,
- un-real,
- very good,
- aweinspiring,
- more smashing,
- more dynamite,
- fabber,
- firstrate,
- most smashing,
- first rate.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- more embellished,
- silver tongued,
- most embellished,
- most hyperbolic,
- embellished,
- silvertongued,
- more hyperbolic.
- 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.
- 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.
Other synonyms:
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- puffed-up.
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grandiose, grandiloquent, high-flown, high-sounding.
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Antonyms for Pompous:
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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.
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self-effacing.
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