Characterized by an exaggerated display of self-importance or dignity; boastful, vainglorious; arrogant; presumptuous, pretentious. Of language…

Pompous, haughty. Cf. bug, n.1 2, bug, adj.

Haughty, pompous, self-important; pretentious, boastful; cocky. Cf. to get too big for one's boots at phrases 1.

Pompous, haughty; proud, conceited. Also: fine, grand.

Showy, resplendent; high-sounding, stately.

Of speech or manner: assuming or exhibiting an air of grandeur; (deliberately) imposing; pompous, grandiose. Now somewhat rare.

in senses of the verb.

Solemn in demeanour, important-looking, pompous, stiff, formal.

? Pompous, ‘big’, self-important. Obsolete.

Characterized by excessive pride, vanity, or self-importance; haughty, arrogant, pompous. Cf. fastuous, adj.

Overstated, grandiloquent; pretentious, pompous.

Absurdly pompous or bombastic; pretentious, affected. Cf. high-flown, adj. 3.

Also: ponderously dignified; stern, repressive, unbending: esp. heavy father, heavy uncle, which are also used as attributive phrases (= sternly…

Overstated, grandiloquent; pretentious, pompous; = portentous, adj. 3.

Windy, flatulent.

= highfalutin, adj. n.

affected, pompous.

gen. Affected, pompous.