A pompous person is arrogant or conceited. He'll walk into a party with an inflated ego, ready to tell anyone who will listen that "I'm kind of a big deal."
Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent;
Adjective S.
puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
a.
Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur;
magnificent; as, a pompous procession.
a.
Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as,
pompous manners; a pompous style.
Pompous
he pompous vanity of the old schoolmistress.--
Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent;
Usage Examples
War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.
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Other Usage ExamplesI hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.