pompös — meaning in English
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English meaning
- highfalutin adj Behaving as if you are more important than you really are; pompous.
- 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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