Word "POMPOUS" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
puffed up with vanity
Synonyms:
grandiloquent, overblown, pontifical, portentous
Examples:
a pompous speech

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display
Synonyms:
ceremonious

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Irritatingly self-important New York Times Mini 09 Aug 2025
Self-important Brit abroad getting fancy soup (7)
Affectedly grand The Sun Two Speed 03 Apr 2025
Vain Englishman and American crossing river The Sun Two Speed 03 Apr 2025
Clean up post office - everyone can see this is ultimately foolishly grand The Telegraph Toughie 12 Feb 2025
Ostentatiously lofty (7)
Pretentious, bombastic (7)
Affectedly self-important
Puffed up old French president's losing papers The Times Cryptic 22 Aug 2024
Politician's circle, in the soup for language ostentatiously lofty (7)
Try to accommodate Monsieur with musical work missing page, lofty in style
Politician in the poo, American and grandiloquent! (7)
Overbearing Englishman ordered soup (7)
But not too self- important possibly to mop spilt soup? (7)
Haughty Newsday 11 Feb 2024
Displaying exaggerated self-importance (7)
Arrogant politician breaking river promises to free current The Guardian Cryptic 03 May 2023
Self-important The Telegraph Quick 06 Mar 2023
Affectedly grand The Times Concise 15 Sep 2022
Vain Englishman and American crossing river The Telegraph Cryptic 19 May 2022
8 old politician's in soup, unfortunately The Telegraph Toughie 16 Sep 2021
Egotistic American attached to endless fluffy adornment The Telegraph Toughie 08 May 2020
Grandiose Brit abroad stirred soup The Sun Two Speed 08 Feb 2020
Affectedly grand The Sun Two Speed 08 Feb 2020
Self-important holy one's going after fair return
Vain Englishman and American crossing river
Arrogant The Telegraph Quick 18 Mar 2018
Self-important, as an ass New York Times 21 Feb 2018
Self-important, as an ass
Puffed up with vanity Irish Times Simplex 22 Nov 2016
Grandly self-important The Times Concise 17 Feb 2016
Pretentious Newsday 17 Jan 2016
Stuffy LA Times Daily 01 Aug 2015
Bombastic Newsday 04 Jul 2015
Stuffy
Bombastic
Like some 13-Downs
Like some 13-Downs
Self-important
Puffed up
Self-important
Self-important.
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