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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pompous  \Pomp"ous\,  a.  [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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  pompous 
  adj  :  puffed  up  with  vanity;  "a  grandiloquent  and  boastful 
  manner";  "overblown  oratory";  "a  pompous  speech"; 
  "pseudo-scientific  gobbledygook  and  pontifical  hooey"- 
  Newsweek  [syn:  {grandiloquent},  {overblown},  {pontifical}, 
  {portentous}] 




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