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| Main Entry: | pompous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant, egotistic |
| Synonyms: | affected, bloated, boastful, bombastic, conceited, flatulent, flaunting, flowery, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, high and mighty*, high-flown*, imperious, important, inflated, magisterial, magniloquent, narcissistic, orotund, ostentatious, overbearing, overblown, pontifical, portentous, presumptuous, pretentious, puffy*, rhetorical, self-centered, self-important, selfish, showy, sonorous, stuck-up*, supercilious, turgid, uppity*, vain, vainglorious, windy*, highfaluting*, puffed up |
| Antonyms: | dull, modest, plain, simple, unassuming |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | arrogant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having exaggerated self-opinion |
| Synonyms: | aloof, assuming, audacious, autocratic, bossy, cavalier, cheeky, cocky, conceited, contemptuous, cool*, disdainful, domineering, egotistic, haughty, high and mighty*, high-handed, imperious, insolent, know-it-all*, lordly, overbearing, peremptory, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, proud, scornful, self-important, smug, snippy*, snooty*, snotty*, supercilious, superior, uppity*, vain, wise guy*, biggety, bragging, cold-shoulder*, on an ego trip, puffed up, smarty, sniffy, stuck up, swaggering |
| Antonyms: | humble, meek, servile, unconceited |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | august |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dignified, noble |
| Synonyms: | baronial, brilliant, eminent, exalted, glorious, grand, grandiose, high-minded, high-ranking, highfalutin', honorable, imposing, impressive, lofty, lordly, magnificent, majestic, monumental, pompous, regal, resplendent, stately, superb, venerable |
| Antonyms: | undignified |
| Main Entry: | boastful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bragging |
| Synonyms: | arrogant, big, big-headed, bombastic, cocky, conceited, crowing, egotistic, egotistical, exultant, full of hot air, hifalutin*, hot stuff, know-it-all, loudmouth, on ego trip, pompous, pretentious, puffed-up, self-aggrandizing, self-applauding, smart-alecky, snooty, strutting, stuck-up, swaggering, swanky, swollen-headed, too big for one's britches, vainglorious, vaunting, windbag* |
| Antonyms: | deprecating, modest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dictatorial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tyrannical, authoritarian |
| Synonyms: | absolute, arbitrary, arrogant, autocratic, bossy, clamorous, despotic, doctrinaire, dogmatic, domineering, egotistic, firm, haughty, imperative, imperious, oppressive, overbearing, peremptory, pompous, proud, stern, totalitarian, unlimited, unrestricted, crack-the-whip, dictative, iron-handed, throwing weight around |
| Antonyms: | democratic, docile, passive |
| Main Entry: | egocentric |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thinking very highly of oneself |
| Synonyms: | conceited, egotistic, individualist, narcissistic, pompous, self-absorbed, self-centered, self-indulgent, selfish, stuck-up, vainglorious, egoistic, egoistical, egomaniacal, egotistical, individualistic, megalomaniac, self-concerned, self-interested, self-loving, self-serving, wrapped up in oneself |
| Antonyms: | altruistic, humble, modest, reserved, shy, submissive, timid, unassuming, selfless |
| Main Entry: | egotistic/egoistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thinking very highly of oneself |
| Synonyms: | affected, aloof, autocratic, boastful, boasting, conceited, egocentric, haughty, inflated, intimate, intrinsic, introverted, isolated, narcissistic, opinionated, personal, pompous, proud, self-absorbed, self-centered, self-important, snobbish, stuck-up*, subjective, superior, swollen, vain, vainglorious, bragging, egomaniacal, individualistic, inner-directed, obsessive, prideful, puffed up, self-admiring, stuck on oneself |
| Antonyms: | altruistic, humble, modest, reserved, shy, submissive, timid, unassuming, selfless |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exalted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | praised; held in high esteem |
| Synonyms: | astral, august, dignified, elevated, eminent, exaggerated, excessive, first, grand, high, high-minded, highest, honorable, honored, ideal, illustrious, immodest, imposing, inflated, intellectual, leading, lofty, magnificent, noble, number one, outstanding, overblown, pompous, prestigious, pretentious, proud, self-important, sublime, superb, superior, top-drawer, uplifting, high-ranking, highest-ranking, top-ranking |
| Antonyms: | debased, humiliated, condemned, criticized, denounced |
| Main Entry: | flatulent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pretentious, long-winded |
| Synonyms: | bombastic, inflated, oratorical, overblown, pompous, prolix, shallow, superficial, swollen, tedious, tumescent, tumid, turgid, windy, wordy |
| Antonyms: | brief, unpretentious |
| Main Entry: | genteel |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sophisticated, cultured |
| Synonyms: | affected, aristocratic, artificial, chivalrous, civil, confined, courteous, courtly, elegant, fashionable, formal, graceful, hollow, intolerant, mannerly, noble, ostentatious, polished, polite, pompous, precious, pretentious, priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, refined, respectable, straitlaced, stuffy*, stylish, urbane, well-behaved, well-bred, well-mannered, cultivated, distingué, la-di-da |
| Notes: | genteel means marked by refinement in taste and manners; a gentile is a person who does not acknowledge your God or denotes a Christian as contrasted with a Jew; gentle means soft and mild or having or showing a kindly or tender nature |
| Antonyms: | boorish, callous, rough, rude, rugged, uncultured, unrefined, unsophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grandiloquent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pretentious, flowery (communication) |
| Synonyms: | aureate, bombastic, declamatory, fustian, high-flown, histrionic, inflated, magniloquent, oratorical, orotund, overblown, pompous, purple*, rhetorical, sonorous, swollen, verbose, windbag*, windy*, big-talking, euphistic, tall-talking |
| Antonyms: | plain, simple, unadorned, unpretentious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grandiose |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | theatrical, extravagant |
| Synonyms: | affected, ambitious, august, bombastic, cosmic, egotistic, flamboyant, fustian, grand, high-falutin', high-flown, imposing, impressive, lofty, lordly, magnificent, majestic, monumental, noble, ostentatious, overwhelming, pompous, pretentious, purple*, royal, showy, splashy, stately, unfathomable, vast |
| Antonyms: | calm, moderate, small, unpretentious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inflated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exaggerated |
| Synonyms: | aureate, bloated, bombastic, diffuse, distended, enlarged, extended, filled, flatulent, flowery, fustian, grandiloquent, grown, magniloquent, ostentatious, overblown, pompous, pretentious, prolix, puffed, ranting, rhetorical, showy, spread, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid, verbose, windy, wordy, aggrandized, amplified, augmented, dilated, dropsical, euphuistic, magnified, overestimated, pumped up, rhapsodical, stretched, surcharged |
| Antonyms: | deflated, shrunken |
| Main Entry: | magnificent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | glorious, wonderful |
| Synonyms: | august, brilliant, commanding, elegant, elevated, exalted, excellent, fine, glittering, gorgeous, grand, grandiose, high-minded, imperial, imposing, impressive, lavish, lofty, luxurious, magnanimous, majestic, noble, opulent, outstanding, palatial, plush, pompous, posh, proud, radiant, regal, resplendent, rich, royal, splendid, stately, striking, sublime, sumptuous, superb, superior, superlative, swanky, towering, transcendent, arresting, chivalric, magnific, smashing, standout |
| Antonyms: | bad, offensive, poor, ugly |
| Main Entry: | majestic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | impressive, splendid |
| Synonyms: | august, awesome, ceremonious, cool, courtly, dignified, elevated, exalted, grand, grandiose, imperial, imposing, lofty, magnificent, marvelous, mind-blowing*, monumental, noble, out of this world, pompous, regal, royal, sovereign, stately, stunning, sublime, sumptuous, superb, fab, magnific, smashing |
| Antonyms: | humble, low, lowly, shabby |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ostentatious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flashy, showy |
| Synonyms: | boastful, chichi*, classy, conspicuous, crass*, dashing, egotistic, extravagant, flamboyant, flatulent, fussy, garish, gaudy, gay, grandiose, jaunty, loud, obtrusive, pompous, pretentious, spectacular, splashy, sporty, swanky*, theatrical, vain, vulgar, exhibitionistic, flaunted, glittery, highfaluting*, peacocky, splurgy, swank, tinsel*, tony, uptown |
| Antonyms: | modest, plain, quiet, reserved |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | overblown |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | excessive, too much |
| Synonyms: | aureate, bombastic, disproportionate, flowery, fulsome, grandiloquent, immoderate, inflated, magniloquent, oratorical, overdone, pompous, pretentious, profuse, rhetorical, sonorous, superfluous, turgid, undue, verbose, windy, euphuistic, hyped up |
| Antonyms: | underrated, undervalued |
| Main Entry: | pedantic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bookish, precise |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, academic, arid, didactic, doctrinaire, dry, dull, egotistic, erudite, formal, fussy, hairsplitting*, learned, ostentatious, particular, pedagogic, pompous, priggish*, punctilious, scholastic, sententious, stilted, donnish, nit-picking, overnice, schoolish |
| Antonyms: | informal, imprecise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | presumptuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | self-confident |
| Synonyms: | arrogant, audacious, bold, cheeky*, conceited, confident, egotistic, foolhardy, forward, fresh, insolent, overconfident, overweening, pompous, presuming, pretentious, pushy, rash, rude, self-assertive, self-assured, self-satisfied, smug, supercilious, uppity*, contumelious, overfamiliar |
| Antonyms: | humble, modest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pretentious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | snobbish, conceited |
| Synonyms: | affected, arty, assuming, aureate, big*, bombastic, chichi*, conspicuous, exaggerated, extravagant, feigned, flamboyant, flashy, flaunting, flowery, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, high-flown*, hollow, imposing, inflated, jazzy*, lofty, magniloquent, mincing, ornate, ostentatious, overblown, pompous, rhetorical, showy, specious, splashy, stilted, tumid, turgid, utopian, vainglorious, euphuistic, high-sounding, highfaluting*, la-di-da, overambitious, puffed up, put-on, swank, too-too |
| Antonyms: | humble, modest, unconceited |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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