Word Meanings - POMPOSITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being pompous; pompousness. Thackeray.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of POMPOSITY)

• Bombast
• Rhodomontade
• braggadocio
• gasconade
• bluster
• inflatedness
• pomposity
• exaggerativeness
• fustian
• Formalism
• Rigidity
• ceremoniousness
• externalism
• parade
• punctilio
• Grandiloquence
• Verbosity
• mouthiness
• grandiosity
• antiloquence
• stiltedness
• euphuism
• turgidity
• bombast
• Solemnity
• Celebration
• rite
• office
• ceremony
• function
• pomp
• seriousness
• gravity
• sacredness
• awe
• sanctity
• impressiveness
• imposingness

Related words: (words related to POMPOSITY)

• GASCONADER
  A great boaster; a blusterer.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• IMPOSINGNESS
  The quality of being imposing.
• FUNCTION; FUNCTIONATE
  To execute or perform a function; to transact one's regular or appointed business.
• GRANDILOQUENCE
  The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense. The sin of grandiloquence or tall talking. Thackeray,
• CELEBRATION
  The act, process, or time of celebrating. His memory deserving a particular celebration. Clarendok. Celebration of Mass is equivalent to offering Mass Cath. Dict. To hasten the celebration of their marriage. Sir P. Sidney.
• BOMBAST
  a doublet of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. See 1. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. A candle with a wick of bombast. Lupton. 2. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding. How now, my sweet
• FUSTIAN
  1. Made of fustian. 2. Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history. Walpole.
• OFFICE WIRE
  Copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, etc.
• FUNCTION
  The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the
• BLUSTERINGLY
  In a blustering manner.
• GASCONADE
  A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging; braggodocio. Swift.
• PUNCTILIOUS
  Attentive to punctilio; very nice or exact in the forms of behavior, etiquette, or mutual intercourse; precise; exact in the smallest particulars. "A punctilious observance of divine laws." Rogers. "Very punctilious copies of any letters.
• BLUSTEROUS
  Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering. Motley.
• CEREMONY
  1. Ar act or series of acts, often of a symbolical character, prescribed by law, custom, or authority, in the conduct of important matters, as in the performance of religious duties, the transaction of affairs of state, and the celebration
• RIGIDITY
  1. The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of from; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; -- opposed to flexibility, ductility, malleability, and softness. 2. Stiffness
• SOLEMNITY
  A solemn or formal observance; proceeding according to due form; the formality which is necessary to render a thing done valid. (more info) 1. A rite or ceremony performed with religious reverence; religious or ritual ceremony; as, the solemnity
• SANCTITY
  1. The state or quality of being sacred or holy; holiness; saintliness; moral purity; godliness. To sanctity she made no pretense, and, indeed, narrowly escaped the imputation of irreligion. Macaulay. 2. Sacredness; solemnity; inviolability;
• PUNCTILIO
  A nice point of exactness in conduct, ceremony, or proceeding; particularity or exactness in forms; as, the punctilios of a public ceremony. They will not part with the least punctilio in their opinions and practices. Fuller
• VERBOSITY
  The quality or state of being verbose; the use of more words than are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage. The worst fault, by far, is the extreme diffuseness and verbosity of his style. Jeffrey.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• BOOKING OFFICE
  1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. 2. An office where passage tickets are sold.
• CROWN OFFICE
  The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.
• DEFUNCTION
  Death. After defunction of King Pharamond. Shak.