pompous

英语

词源

源自中古英語 pompous，源自古法語 pompeux，源自晚期拉丁語 pomposus，源自拉丁語 pompa (“壮丽”)，源自古希臘語 πομπή (pompḗ, “派遣；庄重的队列；壮观，壮丽”)，源自πέμπω (pémpō, “派遣”)。pomposo的同源對似詞。

发音

• (標準英音) IPA^(幫助)：/ˈpɒmpəs/

• （英国南部）音频

  （文檔）

• (通用美式) IPA^(幫助)：/ˈpɑmpəs/

形容词

pompous (比較級 more pompous，最高級 most pompous)

1. 自傲的，高傲的，浮夸的，华而不实的
   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], 出版於 1848, →OCLC:

     , Bantam Classics (1997), 16:

     "Not that the parting speech caused Amelia to philosophise, or that it armed her in any way with a calmness, the result of argument; but it was intolerably dull, pompous, and tedious; and having the fear of her schoolmistress greatly before her eyes, Miss Samuel did not venture, in her presence, to give way to any ebullitions of private grief."

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

近义词

• conceited
• smug
• 见Thesaurus:arrogant

反义词

• humble
• modest
• self-effacing

相关词汇

• pomp
• pomposity
• pompously
• pompousness

延伸阅读

• “pompous”, Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, OCLC 800618302
• “pompous”, The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, OCLC 867766587
• OneLook 在线词典 上有关 pompous 的释义