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Pompous Common

Origin: Latin suffix -ous

Pompous has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Adjective
1

puffed up with vanity

"a grandiloquent and boastful manner"

"overblown oratory"

"a pompous speech"

"pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"

2

characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display

3

Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.

Example Sentences
"a grandiloquent and boastful manner" adjective
"overblown oratory" adjective
"a pompous speech" adjective
"pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey" adjective
Related Terms
Rhyming Words
ous lous pous vous sous yous nous tous eous uous ious bous hous pious anous thous chous aneous mucous famous
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