Definizione monolingua

pompous

pompous (comparative more pompous, superlative most pompous)

1. Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.
   • 1848, Thackeray, William Makepeace, Vanity Fair, Bantam Classics (1997), 16:

     ""Not that the parting speech caused Amelia to philosophise, or that it armed her in any way with a calmness, the result of argument; but it was intolerably dull, pompous, and tedious; and having the fear of her schoolmistress greatly before her eyes, Miss Sedley did not venture, in her presence, to give way to any ebullitions of private grief.""

Definizione dizionario pompous

altisonante

ampolloso

borioso

fastoso

pomposo

sfarzoso

Altri significati:

affectedly grand

Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.