Antonyms for pompous
ˈpɒm pəspompous

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1. pompousadjective

   Antonyms:
   self-effacing, humble, modest

   Synonyms:
   pretentious, smug, conceited, affected

2. pompousadjective

   Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.

   Synonyms:
   pretentious, smug, affected, conceited

   Antonyms:
   humble, modest, self-effacing

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1. pompous

   Antonyms:
   unpretending, unobtrusive, modest, unassuming, plain-mannered, humble-minded

   Synonyms:
   magnificent, gorgeous, splendid, showy, sumptuous, ostentatious, stately, lofty, grand, bombastic, turgid, stiff, inflated, pretentious, coxcombical, assuming

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1. grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentousadjective

   puffed up with vanity

   "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek

   Antonyms:
   unpretentious

   Synonyms:
   prodigious, papal, foreboding(a), tall, episcopal, portentous, overblown, grandiloquent, apostolic, pontifical, fateful, ceremonious, magniloquent, apostolical

2. pompous, ceremoniousadjective

   characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display

   Antonyms:
   unpretentious

   Synonyms:
   conventional, portentous, grandiloquent, ceremonious, pontifical, overblown

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1. pompousadjective

   Synonyms:
   stately, imposing, august, pretentious, grandiose bombastic

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1. vanglorious

   idiomatic expressions,

   Submitted by misbah.batool131 on October 5, 2022  

How to use pompous in a sentence?

1. Stephane Charbonnier:

   It might sound a bit pompous to say so.

2. Vanna Bonta:

   Hot air expands, and seriously pompous attitude is the inflation of choice by those lacking substance.

3. Thor Halvorssen:

   El Sexto has become a prominent target of the Cuban regime because his graffiti art is one of the elite’s most feared methods of protest as it exposes their true nature, el Sexto’s art unmasks the tyranny in ways white papers and press accounts cannot. Now that Castro will receive a pompous farewell, the regime will take measures to silence all voices for democracy and to drown out calls for reform.

4. Joey Adams:

   Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamberpot of success, worn with pompous dignity.

5. Charlie Munger:

   I don't think we should assume that every other nation in the world, no matter what the problems are, should have our type of government, i think that's pompous and self-centered. Ours is right for us but maybe theirs is right for them.

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