pompous
adjectiveExaggeratedly self-important or ceremonious.
Inflated self-importance
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Clear all filtersExaggeratedly self-important or ceremonious.
Inflated self-importance
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Showing an exaggerated sense of one's importance or superiority.
Overconfident of superiority
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Using grand, inflated language that outweighs its substance.
Inflated in language
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Having an excessively favorable opinion of one's own ability or importance.
Excessively self-admiring
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Designed to attract notice through a show of wealth or importance.
Exaggerated, inflated, or more grandiose than the subject warrants.
Excessively inflated
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Pompous and dogmatic in expressing an opinion.
To express opinions in a pompous or dogmatic manner.
Trying to appear more important, cultured, or impressive than justified.
Having or displaying an exaggerated sense of one's own significance.
Inflated sense of importance
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Expressing compact statements of supposed wisdom, often with excessive moralizing.
Swollen; in writing, excessively inflated or pompous.
Swollen
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