showing that you think you are more important than other people, especially by using long and formal words synonym pretentious虚华的;言辞浮夸的 a pompous official 自负的官员 His speech sounded very pompous and self-congratulatory. 他的演讲听起来非常浮夸和沾沾自喜。
Extra ExamplesIt was a good letter, if a little pompous. 这是一封很好的信,尽管有点浮夸。 She found him pompous and annoying. 她觉得他自负又讨厌。 I can't stand pompous people. 我受不了自负的人。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPompous is used with these nouns:- jerk
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French pompeux ‘full of grandeur’, from late Latin pomposus, from pompa ‘pomp’.