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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

pretentiously grand or exaggeratedly solemn in attitude/expression, often to an irritating extent; affectedly self-important in manner;

e.g. Her pompous manner and constant bragging make her unpopular.

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Similar Words

Affected

Arrogant

Assumptive

Assured

Biggety

Bumptious

Caddish

Cavalier

Chesty

Complacent

Conceited

Condescending

Consequential

Declamatory

Egotistical

Grammatical

Grandiose

Haughty

Hifalutin

High-handed

High-hat

High-minded

High-toned

Highfalutin

Hoity-toity

Huffy

Imperious

Important

Inner-directed

La-di-da

Lippy

Lofty

Lordly

Masterful

Ostentatious

Overweening

Palatine

Pedantic

Peremptory

Presumptuous

Pretentious

Prideful

Proud

Regimental

Self-aggrandizing

Self-applauding

Self-asserting

Self-assertive

Self-contained

Self-directed

Self-dramatizing

Self-flattering

Self-glorifying

Self-important

Self-poised

Self-satisfied

Smug

Sniffy

Snippy

Splendiferous

Stiff-necked

Stuck-up

Supercilious

Superior

Than

Toplofty

Unselfconscious

Uppity

Vain

Vainglorious

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Opposite Words

Acquiescent

Bashful

Compliant

Deferential

Demure

Diffident

Down-home

Down-to-earth

Fireside

Folksy

Homely

Homespun

Humble

Ineloquent

Introverted

Lowly

Meek

Modest

Mousy

Other-directed

Overmodest

Passive

Quiet

Reserved

Retiring

Self-critical

Self-deprecating

Self-deprecatory

Self-doubting

Self-forgetful

Self-giving

Self-questioning

Sheepish

Shy

Subdued

Submissive

Timid

Unaggressive

Unarrogant

Unassertive

Unassuming

Unobtrusive

Unpretentious

Yielding

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Related Words

Abhorrent

Aggressive

Airy

Aristocratic

Arrogant

Assertive

Assumptive

Assured

Audacious

August

Authoritarian

Authoritative

Autocratic

Baronial

Bold

Bombastic

Bookish

Bossy

Braggart

Brash

Brassy

Bumptious

Cavalier

Cheeky

Chesty

Cocky

Complacent

Conceited

Condescending

Confident

Contemptuous

Despotic

Dictatorial

Discourteous

Disdainful

Dominant

Domineering

Egocentric

Egotistical

Elevated

Elitist

Eloquent

Epic

Erudite

Extroverted

Familiar

Fastuous

Flamboyant

Flashy

Flatulent

Florid

Flowery

Forward

Free

Fustian

Gallant

Garish

Gaseous

Gassy

Gaudy

Glorious

Grand

Grandiose

Haughty

Heroic

Hifalutin

High-flown

High-handed

High-hat

High-sounding

High-toned

Highfalutin

Hoity-toity

Holier-than-thou

Homeric

Hubristic

Huffy

Ill-bred

Ill-mannered

Imperial

Imperious

Impertinent

Impolite

Important

Imposing

Impudent

Inconsiderate

Insolent

Learned

Literary

Lofty

Lordly

Magisterial

Magnific

Magnificent

Majestic

Mannered

Massive

Masterful

Monumental

Narcissistic

Noble

Oratorical

Ornate

Orotund

Overbearing

Overconfident

Overfamiliar

Overweening

Patronizing

Peremptory

Persnickety

Pontifical

Potty

Presumptuous

Pretentious

Prideful

Proud

Purple

Regal

Rhetorical

Ritzy

Royal

Rude

Saucy

Scornful

Secure

Self-absorbed

Self-aggrandizing

Self-applauding

Self-asserting

Self-assertive

Self-assured

Self-centered

Self-dramatizing

Self-flattering

Self-glorifying

Self-important

Self-infatuated

Self-obsessed

Self-oriented

Self-preoccupied

Self-regarding

Self-satisfied

Self-seeking

Self-serving

Selfish

Sententious

Showy

Smug

Snobbish

Snobby

Snooty

Snotty

Solipsistic

Splashy

Splendid

Stately

Stuck-up

Supercilious

Superior

Sure

Thoughtless

Toffee

Toffee-nosed

Toplofty

Towering

Tyrannical

Tyrannous

Uncalled-for

Uncivil

Ungracious

Unhandsome

Uninhibited

Unmannered

Unmannerly

Unreserved

Uppity

Vain

Vainglorious

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