EGAVE

pompous

About 1.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.

Similar words

pretentious grandiloquent overblown portentous pontifical high-sounding high-flown bombastic emphatic high-minded

Often followed by

and ass manner in or old title man little

Word family

pompously pompousness pompousnesses

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