1. puffed up with vanity (Freq. 2) - a grandiloquent and boastful manner - overblown oratory - a pompous speech - "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek • Syn: grandiloquent, overblown, pontifical, portentous • Similar to: pretentious • Derivationally related forms: pomp, pomposity, pompousness 2. characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display • Syn: ceremonious • Pertains to noun: ceremony (for: ceremonious), pomp • Derivationally related forms: pomp