pompous

英语

词源

源自中古英语 pompous，源自古法语 pompeux，源自晚期拉丁语 pomposus，源自拉丁语 pompa (“壮丽”)，源自古希腊语 πομπή (pompḗ, “派遣；庄重的队列；壮观，壮丽”)，源自πέμπω (pémpō, “派遣”)。pomposo 的同源对似词。

发音

• (标准英音) 国际音标^(帮助): /ˈpɒmpəs/

• （英国南部）音频：

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• (通用美式) 国际音标^(帮助): /ˈpɑmpəs/

形容词

pompous (比较级 more pompous，最高级 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, […], 出版于 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."

     （请为本引文添加中文翻译）

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年，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