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pompös — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • highfalutin adj Self-important, pompous; arrogant or egotistical.
  • opulent adjective Extremely luxurious and lavish, often to a showy degree.
  • ostentatious adj Showy or over-the-top, designed mainly to impress or attract attention.
  • pompous adj Overly self-important, grand, or full of exaggerated dignity.

Senses

pompös is used for these senses in English:

  • highfalutin (US, informal) Self-important, pompous; arrogant or egotistical.
  • hoity-toity Affected or pretentious, sometimes with the implication of displaying an air of excessive fanciness or ostentation; pompous, self-important, snobbish; often displaying a feeling of patronizing self-aggrandizing or arrogant class superiority.
  • opulent Luxuriant, and ostentatiously magnificent.
  • ostentatious Of ostentation.
  • ostentatious Of tawdry display; kitsch.
  • pompous Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.

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