Definition for Pompous:

• Showy; splendid; characterised by ostentation and display.

Synonyms for Pompous:

• adj.

  •arrogant, egotistic (adjective)
  • fustian,
  • flowery,
  • conceited,
  • inflated,
  • presumptuous,
  • boastful,
  • narcissistic,
  • grandiose,
  • windy,
  • important,
  • orotund,
  • bombastic,
  • rhetorical,
  • self-important,
  • affected,
  • self-centered,
  • supercilious,
  • bloated,
  • portentous,
  • selfish,
  • vain,
  • pretentious,
  • magniloquent,
  • overbearing,
  • magisterial,
  • imperious,
  • grandiloquent,
  • stuck-up,
  • highfaluting,
  • vainglorious,
  • sonorous,
  • flatulent,
  • ostentatious,
  • uppity,
  • overblown,
  • Flaunting,
  • high-flown,
  • puffy,
  • showy,
  • turgid,
  • pontifical.
  •authoritative (adjective)
  • magisterial.
  •boastful (adjective)
  • hifalutin,
  • swollen-headed.
  •concise (adjective)
  • sententious.
  •dramatic (adjective)
  • theatrical.
  •exaggerated (adjective)
  • inflated.
  •genteel (adjective)
  • old-maidish.
  •individualistic (adjective)
  • individualistic.
  •ostentatious (adjective)
  • flagrant,
  • blatant,
  • garish,
  • dashing,
  • forced,
  • exhibitionistic,
  • flamboyant,
  • vain,
  • shameless,
  • gaudy,
  • fussy,
  • flashy,
  • sensational,
  • formal,
  • affected,
  • stilted,
  • dramatic,
  • splashy,
  • orotund,
  • grandiose,
  • ornate,
  • grandiloquent,
  • showy,
  • Flaunting,
  • boastful,
  • ostentatious,
  • snazzy,
  • rakish,
  • highfaluting,
  • jaunty,
  • histrionic,
  • opulent,
  • flourishing.
  •overweening (adjective)
  • overweening.
  •pretentious (adjective)
  • arrogant,
  • self-important,
  • overambitious,
  • high-flown,
  • egotistic,
  • theatrical,
  • pretentious,
  • bombastic,
  • proud,
  • inflated,
  • conceited,
  • flatulent,
  • stuffy,
  • haughty.
  •self-confident (adjective)
  • presumptuous.
  •snobbish (adjective)
  • putting on airs,
  • uppish,
  • high hat,
  • stuck-up.
  •snotty (adjective)
  • la-de-da.
  •straitlaced (adjective)
  • priggish.
  •stuffy (adjective)
  • puffy.
  •vain (adjective)
  • vainglorious,
  • priggish.

• n.

  •
  • patronizing,
  • egocentric.
  •
  • hoity-toity,
  • highfalutin,
  • self-important,
  • puffy,
  • puffed-up.
  •pompous (noun)
  • overblown,
  • grandiloquent,
  • portentous,
  • pontifical,
  • pretentious.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • hoity-toity,
  • puffed-up,
  • highfalutin,
  • stately.
  •
  • self-important,
  • egotistic.
  •artificial
  • high-sounding.
  •bombastic
  • mouthy,
  • gassy.
  •conceited
  • puffy.
  •costly
  • sumptuous.
  •distended
  • inflated.
  •egotistic
  • proud.
  •formal
  • pedantic.
  •haughty
  • toplofty.
  •pompous
  • turgid,
  • big.
  •rhetorical
  • oratorical.
  •Other relevant words:
  • frilly,
  • prim,
  • ostentation,
  • bigheaded,
  • aloof,
  • palatial,
  • determined,
  • rococo,
  • scornful,
  • solemn,
  • flossy,
  • flashing,
  • egocentric,
  • unfriendly,
  • embroidered,
  • peremptory,
  • arrogant,
  • august,
  • egotistical,
  • uppish,
  • magisterial,
  • sensationalistic,
  • contumelious,
  • reassured,
  • derisory,
  • ritualistic,
  • dreary,
  • magniloquent,
  • posh,
  • mannered,
  • brazen,
  • portentous,
  • preachy,
  • imperial,
  • highfaluting,
  • uptight,
  • egoistic,
  • majestic,
  • genteel,
  • rigid,
  • long-winded,
  • lordly,
  • self-absorbed,
  • flowery,
  • Fastuous,
  • la-di-da,
  • regal,
  • cocky,
  • sheen,
  • Lexiphanic,
  • uncongenial,
  • derisive,
  • niminy-piminy,
  • arrogance,
  • important,
  • huffish,
  • exhibitionist,
  • high-flown,
  • pretext,
  • baroque,
  • gassy,
  • fully,
  • posed,
  • Altiloquent,
  • unwieldy,
  • pontifical,
  • lumbering,
  • stately,
  • orotund,
  • egoistical,
  • mouthy,
  • self-engrossed,
  • gorgeous,
  • elephantine,
  • contemptuous,
  • tall,
  • conceited,
  • sonorous,
  • chesty,
  • hifalutin,
  • intense,
  • old-maidish,
  • unsocial,
  • standoffish,
  • mocking,
  • flatulent,
  • festivity,
  • ornament,
  • stodgy,
  • awkward,
  • oratorical,
  • talkative,
  • secure,
  • florid,
  • insincere,
  • fustian,
  • smug,
  • gingerbread,
  • hypocritical,
  • prideful,
  • effusive,
  • imposing,
  • Gairish,
  • Turgescent,
  • intricate,
  • toffee-nosed,
  • elegance,
  • luster,
  • unrelaxed,
  • confident,
  • undoubting,
  • bumptious,
  • patronizing,
  • conventional,
  • pedestrian,
  • puffed-up,
  • pomposity,
  • shininess,
  • puffy,
  • self-asserting,
  • tedious,
  • self-centered,
  • overblown,
  • unafraid,
  • priggish,
  • decorous,
  • gala,
  • overdone,
  • overgrown,
  • self-confident,
  • proud,
  • Overrated,
  • jumped-up,
  • stiff,
  • insulting,
  • swollen-headed,
  • claim,
  • purple,
  • feast,
  • overconfident,
  • chilly,
  • ceremonial,
  • olympian,
  • grand,
  • distant,
  • euphemistic,
  • sure,
  • tumid,
  • busy,
  • overweening,
  • self-assertive,
  • sesquipedalian,
  • frosty,
  • high-flying,
  • self-satisfied,
  • pretentious,
  • lavish,
  • arty,
  • pedagogic,
  • overbearing,
  • snobbish,
  • haughtiness,
  • disdainful,
  • strut one's stuff,
  • elaborate,
  • lurid,
  • selfish,
  • leaden,
  • bombastic,
  • voluble,
  • fateful,
  • conceit,
  • pompousness,
  • well-mannered,
  • overwrought,
  • stuffy,
  • seemly,
  • rhetorical,
  • lah-di-dah,
  • cold,
  • tense,
  • self-centred,
  • toplofty,
  • assuming,
  • belittling,
  • splendid,
  • insolent,
  • aureate,
  • dry,
  • prodigious,
  • dignified,
  • presumptuous,
  • self-conceited,
  • boring,
  • fancy,
  • detached,
  • Magnific,
  • melodramatic,
  • garrulous,
  • hieratic,
  • bedizened,
  • bloated,
  • unhesitating,
  • donnish,
  • rich,
  • artificial,
  • meretricious,
  • liturgical,
  • exaggerated,
  • self-involved,
  • prolix,
  • high-handed,
  • exalted,
  • strait-laced,
  • labyrinthine,
  • embellished,
  • ponderous,
  • withdrawn,
  • affectation,
  • putting on airs,
  • swelling,
  • swelled,
  • unwavering,
  • activity,
  • gay,
  • inflated,
  • pseudo,
  • extravagant,
  • swollen,
  • magnificent,
  • labored,
  • glittering,
  • unnatural,
  • self-assured,
  • Liturgic,
  • county,
  • haughty,
  • doctrinaire,
  • wooden,
  • papal,
  • remote,
  • self-seeking,
  • Sesquipedal,
  • ceremonious,
  • professorial,
  • shine,
  • jeering,
  • condescending,
  • lofty,
  • overambitious,
  • heavy,
  • fete,
  • didactic,
  • assured,
  • positive,
  • hoity-toity,
  • stiff-necked,
  • loquacious,
  • supercilious,
  • flaming,
  • Pedantical,
  • self-important,
  • arabesque,
  • dictatorial,
  • hubristic,
  • highfalutin,
  • tiresome,
  • convinced,
  • la-de-da,
  • halting,
  • sneering,
  • old fashioned,
  • festival,
  • disdain,
  • self-reliant,
  • unsociable,
  • proper,
  • verbose,
  • sumptuous,
  • narcissistic,
  • stuck-up,
  • clumsy,
  • graceless,
  • laboured,
  • cramped,
  • fanciful,
  • tortuous,
  • theatrical,
  • self-opinionated,
  • official,
  • turgid,
  • fuddy-duddy,
  • cool,
  • wordy,
  • removed,
  • chichi,
  • decorated,
  • courtly,
  • unapproachable,
  • austere,
  • parvenu,
  • big,
  • declamatory,
  • Inkhorn,
  • overelaborate,
  • Distended,
  • Euphuistic,
  • snooty,
  • Oversure,
  • snippy,
  • decided,
  • ornamented,
  • Ossianic,
  • imperious,
  • contrived,
  • Persuaded,
  • superficial,
  • ritual,
  • Beautified,
  • windy,
  • pedantic,
  • pride,
  • pretension,
  • rambling,
  • sententious,
  • fluent,
  • luxurious,
  • huffy,
  • vanity,
  • over-dramatic,
  • apostolical,
  • sacerdotal,
  • snotty,
  • convoluted,
  • cavalier,
  • braggart,
  • laborious,
  • uppity,
  • Big-sounding,
  • high hat,
  • inaccessible,
  • bookish,
  • staid,
  • flash,
  • elevated,
  • cumbrous,
  • egotistic,
  • celebration,
  • Janty,
  • glib,
  • superior,
  • individualistic,
  • splurgy,
  • glorified,
  • cocksure,
  • fulsome,
  • mincing,
  • vainglorious,
  • poised,
  • frothy,
  • complacent,
  • high-sounding,
  • unfaltering,
  • ungraceful.

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.

• Other antonyms:

  • n.
    self-effacing.