pomp·ous
pomp·ous/ˈpämpəs/
adjective
affectedly and irritatingly grand, solemn, or self-important.
"a pompous ass who pretends he knows everything"
synonyms: self-important, imperious, overbearing, domineering, magisterial, pontifical, sententious, grandiose, affected, stiff, pretentious, puffed up, arrogant, vain, haughty, proud, conceited, egotistic, supercilious, condescending, patronizing, snooty, uppity, uppish, bombastic, high-sounding, high-flown, lofty, turgid, grandiloquent, magniloquent, ornate, overblown, overripe, inflated, rhetorical, oratorical, declamatory, sonorous, portentous, pedantic, boastful, boasting, bragging, braggart, Falstaffian, highfalutin, windy, fustian, euphuistic, orotund
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1. exaggeratedly or ostentatiously dignified or self-important · 2. ostentatiously lofty in style. a pompous speech · 3. rare.
He was a pompous, officious little bureaucrat. Synonyms. self-important · ostentatious · pretentious · haughty.