pompous

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a. 爱炫耀的, 虚夸的, 盛大的

发音

UK /ˈpɒmpəs/
其它
US /ˈpɑmpəs/

词形变化

more pompous 比较级 most pompous 最高级

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.

    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.

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 5

overblown ceremonious grandiloquent pontifical portentous

近义相关 1

pretentious

词源

From Middle English pompous, from Old French pompeux, pompos, from Late Latin pomposus, from Latin pompa (“pomp”), from Ancient Greek πομπή (pompḗ, “a sending, a solemn procession, pomp”), from πέμπω (pémpō, “to send”), equivalent to pomp + -ous. Doublet of pomposo.

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