pompous
adjective
[ ˈpɒmpəs ]
• affectedly grand, solemn, or self-important.
• "a pompous ass who pretends he knows everything"
Similar:
self-important,
imperious,
overbearing,
domineering,
magisterial,
pontifical,
sententious,
grandiose,
affected,
stiff,
pretentious,
puffed up,
arrogant,
vain,
haughty,
proud,
conceited,
egotistic,
supercilious,
condescending,
patronizing,
snooty,
uppity,
uppish,
bombastic,
high-sounding,
high-flown,
lofty,
turgid,
grandiloquent,
magniloquent,
ornate,
overblown,
overripe,
inflated,
rhetorical,
oratorical,
declamatory,
sonorous,
portentous,
pedantic,
boastful,
boasting,
bragging,
braggart,
Falstaffian,
highfalutin,
windy,
fustian,
euphuistic,
orotund,
• characterized by pomp or splendour.
• "processions and other pompous shows"
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French pompeux ‘full of grandeur’, from late Latin pomposus, from pompa ‘pomp’.
