| slovo | definícia |
pompous
(encz) | pompous,nabubřelý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
pompous
(encz) | pompous,nafoukaný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
pompous
(encz) | pompous,pompézní adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Pompous
(gcide) | Pompous \Pomp"ous\, a. [F. pompeux, L. pomposus. See Pomp.]
1. Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur;
magnificent; as, a pompous procession.
[1913 Webster]
2. Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as,
pompous manners; a pompous style. "Pompous in high
presumption." --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
he pompous vanity of the old schoolmistress.
--Thackeray.
[1913 Webster] -- Pom"ous*ly, adv. -- Pomp"ous*ness,
n.
[1913 Webster] |
pompous
(wn) | pompous
adj 1: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful
manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech";
"pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"-
Newsweek [syn: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous,
pontifical, portentous]
2: characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display [syn:
pompous, ceremonious] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
pompous
(encz) | pompous,nabubřelý adj: Zdeněk Brožpompous,nafoukaný adj: Zdeněk Brožpompous,pompézní adj: Zdeněk Brož |
pompously
(encz) | pompously,nafoukaně adv: Jaroslav Šedivý |
pompousness
(encz) | pompousness,nafoukanost n: Zdeněk Brož |
unpompous
(encz) | unpompous, adj: |
Pompousness
(gcide) | Pompous \Pomp"ous\, a. [F. pompeux, L. pomposus. See Pomp.]
1. Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur;
magnificent; as, a pompous procession.
[1913 Webster]
2. Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as,
pompous manners; a pompous style. "Pompous in high
presumption." --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
he pompous vanity of the old schoolmistress.
--Thackeray.
[1913 Webster] -- Pom"ous*ly, adv. -- Pomp"ous*ness,
n.
[1913 Webster] |
pompous
(wn) | pompous
adj 1: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful
manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech";
"pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"-
Newsweek [syn: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous,
pontifical, portentous]
2: characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display [syn:
pompous, ceremonious] |
pompously
(wn) | pompously
adv 1: in a pompous manner; "he pompously described his
achievements" |
pompousness
(wn) | pompousness
n 1: lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and
puffed up with vanity [syn: ostentation,
ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness,
pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness, inflation] |
unpompous
(wn) | unpompous
adj 1: not pompous |
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