Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - pompous
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Pompous
pompous
adjective Date: 15th century 1. excessively elevated or ornate ~ rhetoric 2. having or exhibiting self-importance ; arrogant a ~ politician 3. relating to or suggestive of pomp ; magnificent • ~ly adverb • ~ness noun
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1.
n. 1 self-important, affectedly grand or solemn. 2 (of language) pretentious; unduly grand in style. 3 archaic magnificent; splendid. Derivatives pomposity n. (pl. -ies). pompously adv. pompousness n. Etymology: ME f. OF pompeux f. LL pomposus (as POMP) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
2.
1. великолепный, помпезный, эффектный 2. напыщенный, полный важности, самомнения he's a pompous ass —- он (просто) надутый осел 3. высокопарный, напыщенный (о слоге) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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4.
1. If you describe someone as pompous, you mean that they behave or speak in a very serious way because they think they are more important than they really are. He was somewhat pompous and had a high opinion of his own capabilities. ADJ c darkgreen]disapproval • pompously Robin said pompously that he had an important business appointment. ADV: usu ADV with v 2. A pompous building or ceremony is very grand and elaborate. The service was grand without being pompous. ADJ ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
5.
~ adj trying to make people think you are important, especially by using very formal and important sounding words (The principal gave a very pompous speech about `the portals of learning'.) - pompously adv - pompousness, pomposity n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- c.1375, "characterized by pomp," from O.Fr. pompeux, from L.L. pomposus "stately, pompous," from L. pompa "pomp." Pomposity is early 15c., from L.L. pompositas, from pomposus "stately, pompous." The sense of "ostentatious display" is from 1620, earlier in Fr. pompositй. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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