pompous

English

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French pompeux, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 159: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value LL. is not valid. See WT:LOL. pomposus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin pompa (“pomp”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek πομπή (pompḗ, “a sending, a solemn procession, pomp”), from πέμπω (pémpō, “I send”).

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pompous (comparative more pompous, superlative most pompous)

Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.
- 1848, Thackeray, William Makepeace, Vanity Fair, Bantam Classics (1997), 16:
  "Not that the parting speech caused Amelia to philosophise, or that it armed her in any way with a calmness, the result of argument; but it was intolerably dull, pompous, and tedious; and having the fear of her schoolmistress greatly before her eyes, Miss Samuel did not venture, in her presence, to give way to any ebullitions of private grief."

affectedly grand