Front | pompous |
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Pron | ['pɑːmpəs] |
Back | 【pompous】 adj.夸大的 The leader of the band bowed in a pompous manner. 乐队队长以夸大的姿势鞠了个躬。 |
Vocab | pompouspuffed up with vanity
A pompous person is arrogant or conceited. He'll walk into a party with an inflated ego, ready to tell anyone who will listen that "I'm kind of a big deal." Today we associate the adjective pompous with self-important jerks. But it's actually derived from the Old French pompeux, which meant “stately." And that's why you can also use pompous to describe something with a lot of ceremonial or stately display — in other words, something surrounded by "pomp and circumstance." All forms of 'pompous' will appear on average once every 1217 pages. pomp pompous pomposity pompously pompousness unpompous |
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