pomposo

From Italian pomposo (“magnificent”). Doublet of pompous.

pomposo (comparative more pomposo, superlative most pomposo)

1. (music) ceremonious and dignified

pomposo (comparative more pomposo, superlative most pomposo)

1. (music) in a ceremonious and dignified manner

• “pomposo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From Late Latin pompōsus.

• IPA^(key): /pomˈpo.zo/, (traditional) /pomˈpo.so/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ozo, (traditional) -oso
• Hyphenation: pom‧pó‧so

pomposo (feminine pomposa, masculine plural pomposi, feminine plural pompose)

1. magnificent, grand, stately
2. self-important, ostentatious, showy, pompous

• pomposamente

From Late Latin pompōsus.

• Hyphenation: pom‧po‧so

pomposo (feminine pomposa, masculine plural pomposos, feminine plural pomposas, metaphonic)

1. pompous (affectedly grand)

• pomposamente

• pompa

• “pomposo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from Late Latin pompōsus.

• IPA^(key): /pomˈposo/ [põmˈpo.so]

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• Rhymes: -oso
• Syllabification: pom‧po‧so

pomposo (feminine pomposa, masculine plural pomposos, feminine plural pomposas)

1. pompous, highfalutin

• “pomposo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024