POMPOUS

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

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

2.
a.

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.

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