pomp·ous /ˈpɑmpəs/
(a.)傲慢的,自大的,誇大的,豪華的
Pomp·ous a.
1. Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession.
2. Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style. “Pompous in high presumption.”
he pompous vanity of the old schoolmistress. --Thackeray.
-- Pom*ous*ly, adv. -- Pomp*ous*ness, n.
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pompous
adj : puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful
manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech";
"pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"-
Newsweek [syn: grandiloquent, overblown, pontifical,
portentous]