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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

pompous or an exhibit of self-importance;

e.g. It was a pontifical display made to encourage worshippers to continue in their faith.

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Similar Words

Canonical

Condescending

Doctrinaire

Dogmatic

Ideological

Missionary

Opinionated

Patriarchal

Sacramental

Self-flattering

Than

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Opposite Words

Latitudinarian

Open

Open-minded

Receptive

Unarrogant

Undogmatic

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Related Words

Adamant

Adamantine

Arrogant

Assumptive

Assured

Biggety

Bombastic

Bumptious

Cavalier

Chesty

Clerical

Complacent

Conceited

Consequential

Ecclesiastic

Ecclesiastical

Egotistical

Flatulent

Fustian

Gaseous

Gassy

Hardheaded

Haughty

Headstrong

Hifalutin

High-handed

High-hat

Highfalutin

Huffy

Imperious

Implacable

Important

Inflexible

Lofty

Lordly

Masterful

Mulish

Obdurate

Obstinate

Oratorical

Orotund

Overweening

Pastoral

Peremptory

Pertinacious

Perverse

Pigheaded

Pompous

Presumptuous

Pretentious

Prideful

Priestly

Proud

Rhetorical

Rigid

Sacerdotal

Self-asserting

Self-assertive

Self-important

Self-satisfied

Self-willed

Smug

Sniffy

Stiff-necked

Stubborn

Stuck-up

Supercilious

Superior

Toplofty

Unbending

Unyielding

Uppity

Vain

Vainglorious

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