pompous (adj.)
- affected
- arrogant
- assured
- aureate
- awkward
- boastful
- bombastic
- braggart
- ceremonial
- ceremonious
- cocksure
- conceited
- confident
- conventional
- convinced
- convoluted
- cramped
- cumbrous
- decided
- declamatory
- decorous
- determined
- egotistical
- elephantine
- elevated
- flamboyant
- flaming
- flashy
- flatulent
- flossy
- flowery
- forced
- formal
- fulsome
- garish
- gassy
- gaudy
- grandiloquent
- grandiose
- halting
- haughty
- heavy
- hieratic
- high-flown
- high-sounding
- highfalutin
- hoity-toity
- imperious
- important
- inflated
- labored
- labyrinthine
- leaden
- lofty
- lumbering
- lurid
- magisterial
- magniloquent
- meretricious
- narcissistic
- ornate
- orotund
- ostentatious
- overbearing
- overblown
- overconfident
- overdone
- overweening
- overwrought
- pedantic
- persuaded
- poised
- ponderous
- pontifical
- positive
- presumptuous
- pretentious
- proud
- puffy
- reassured
- rhetorical
- ritual
- ritualistic
- sacerdotal
- secure
- self-assured
- self-centered
- self-conceited
- self-confident
- self-important
- self-reliant
- selfish
- sensational
- sensationalistic
- sententious
- sesquipedalian
- showy
- snobbish
- snooty
- snotty
- solemn
- sonorous
- stately
- stiff
- stilted
- stuck-up
- stuffy
- sure
- swollen
- tall
- tortuous
- tumid
- turgid
- unafraid
- unfaltering
- unhesitating
- unwavering
- unwieldy
- uppity
- vain
- vainglorious
- well-mannered
- windy
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.
