Pompous
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

4 letters

SURE
Certain to occur; destined or inevitable; "he was certain to fail"; "his fate is certain"; "In this life nothing is certain but death and taxes"- Benjamin Franklin; "he faced certain death"; "sudden but sure regret"; "he is sure to win"

TALL
A garment size for a tall person

VAIN
Unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt"

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GASSY
Resembling gas

GAUDY
(Britain) a celebratory reunion feast or entertainment held a college

HEAVY
A serious (or tragic) role in a play

LOFTY
Having or displaying great dignity or nobility; "a gallant pageant"; "lofty ships"; "majestic cities"; "proud alpine peaks"

LURID
Shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke; "a lurid sunset"; "lurid flames"

PROUD
Having or displaying great dignity or nobility; "a gallant pageant"; "lofty ships"; "majestic cities"; "proud alpine peaks"

PUFFY
Blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts; "puffy off-shore winds"; "gusty winds "

REGAL
Belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler; "golden age of imperial splendor"; "purple tyrant"; "regal attire"; "treated with royal acclaim"; "the royal carriage of a stag's head"

SHOWY
Superficially attractive and stylish; suggesting wealth or expense; "a glossy TV series"

STIFF
The dead body of a human being; "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"

TUMID
Ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"

WINDY
Abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes; "blowy weather"; "a windy bluff"

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FLASHY
(used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display

FLOSSY
Like down or as soft as down

FORCED
Made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency; "a forced landing"

FORMAL
A gown for evening wear

GARISH
Tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"

GUINDE

LEADEN
Lacking lightness or liveliness; "heavy humor"; "a leaden conversation"

MOUTHY

ORNATE
Marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton

POISED
Marked by balance or equilibrium and readiness for action; "a gull in poised flight"; "George's poised hammer"

PURPLE
Of a color intermediate between red and blue

RITUAL
Any customary observance or practice

SECURE
Free from danger or risk; "secure from harm"; "his fortune was secure"; "made a secure place for himself in his field"

SNOOTY
(used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate family"-Laurent Le Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety"

SNOTTY
Dirty with nasal discharge; "a snotty nose"; "a house full of snot-nosed kids"

SOLEMN
Dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises; "a grave God-fearing man"; "a quiet sedate nature"; "as sober as a judge"; "a solemn promise"; "the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence"

TURGID
Ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"

UPPITY
Presumptuously arrogant; "had a witty but overweening manner"; "no idea how overweening he would be"- S.V.Benet; "getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down"- NY Times

STUFFY
Affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction; "a stuffy feeling in my chest"

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OROTUND
Ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"

STILTED
Artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"

ASSURED
Characterized by certainty or security; "a tiny but assured income"; "we can never have completely assured lives"

AUREATE
Having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet"

AWKWARD
Socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner; "awkward and reserved at parties"; "ill at ease among eddies of people he didn't know"; "was always uneasy with strangers"

BLOATED

CRAMPED
Constricted in size; "cramped quarters"; "trying to bring children up in cramped high-rise apartments"

DECIDED
Recognizable; marked; "noticed a distinct improvement"; "at a distinct (or decided) disadvantage"

FLAMING
Informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or blinking) nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you flaming idiot"

FLOWERY
Marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton

FULSOME
Unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep"; "soapy compliments"

FUSTIAN
A strong cotton and linen fabric with a slight nap

GENTEEL
Marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"

HALTING
Disabled in the feet or legs; "a crippled soldier"; "a game leg"

HAUGHTY
Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer

HIGHHAT
A man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur

INKHORN

LABORED
Requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading"

POMPOUS
Puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek

SELFISH
Concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others; "Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights"- Maria Weston Chapman

STATELY
Impressive in appearance; "a baronial mansion"; "an imposing residence"; "a noble tree"; "severe-looking policemen sat astride noble horses"; "stately columns"

STUCKUP

SWOLLEN
Characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary"; "vain about her clothes"

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AFFECTED
Speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression

ARROGANT
Having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims"; "chesty as a peacock"

BOASTFUL
Exhibiting self-importance; "big talk"

BRAGGARD

BRAGGART
A very boastful and talkative person

COCKSURE
Marked by excessive confidence; "an arrogant and cocksure materialist"; "so overconfident and impudent as to speak to the queen"; "the less he knows the more positive he gets"

CUMBROSE

DECOROUS
Characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct; "the tete-a-tete was decorous in the extreme"

ELEVATED
A railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level

HIERATIC
A cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by the priests

INFLATED
Enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness; "a hyperbolic style"

LABOURED
Requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading"

LATINATE
Derived from or imitative of Latin

LITURGIC

MAJESTIC
Having or displaying great dignity or nobility; "a gallant pageant"; "lofty ships"; "majestic cities"; "proud alpine peaks"

MANNERED
Having unnatural mannerisms; "brief, mannered and unlifelike idiom"

OFFICIAL
Someone who administers the rules of a game or sport; "the golfer asked for an official who could give him a ruling"

OVERDONE
Cooked too long but still edible

OVERSURE

PEDANTIC
Marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects

POSITIVE
A film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject

PUFFEDUP

SNOBBISH
Befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior

SONEROUS

TORTUOUS
Not straightforward; "his tortuous reasoning"

SONOROUS
Full and loud and deep; "heavy sounds"; "a herald chosen for his sonorous voice"

UNWIELDY
Lacking grace in movement or posture; "a gawky lad with long ungainly legs"; "clumsy fingers"; "what an ungainly creature a giraffe is"; "heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair"

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BEDIZENED

CONCEITED
Characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary"; "vain about her clothes"

CONFIDENT
Persuaded of; very sure; "were convinced that it would be to their advantage to join"; "I am positive he is lying"; "was confident he would win"

CONVINCED
Persuaded of; very sure; "were convinced that it would be to their advantage to join"; "I am positive he is lying"; "was confident he would win"

FLATULENT
Generating excessive gas in the alimentary canal

FLAUNTING

GLORIFIED
Accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing

HIGHFLOWN

HUBRISTIC

IMPERIOUS
Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer

IMPORTANT
Having authority or ascendancy or influence; "an important official"; "the captain's authoritative manner"

LUMBERING
The trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber

PERSUADED

PONDEROUS
Having great mass and weight and unwieldiness; "a ponderous stone"; "a ponderous burden"; "ponderous weapons"

REASSURED
Having confidence restored; freed from anxiety; "reassured by her praise he pressed on"

GRANDIOSE
Impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval