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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈpɒmpəs/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈpɑmpəs/

形容詞

pompous (comparative more pompous, superlative most pompous)

1. Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.
   • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial:

     But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature.

   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
     , 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 Samuel did not venture, in her presence, to give way to any ebullitions of private grief.

同意語

• conceited
• smug
• highfalutin
• See also Thesaurus:arrogant

反意語

• humble
• modest
• self-effacing

関連する語

• pomp
• pomposity
• pompously
• pompousness

Further reading

• “pompous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “pompous”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “pompous”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.