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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 pomp·ous /ˈpɑmpəs/
 (a.)傲慢的,自大的,誇大的,豪華的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pomp·ous a.
 1. Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession.
 2. Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style.  “Pompous in high presumption.”
    he pompous vanity of the old schoolmistress.   --Thackeray.
 -- Pom*ous*ly, adv. -- Pomp*ous*ness, n.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 pompous
      adj : puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful
            manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech";
            "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"-
            Newsweek [syn: grandiloquent, overblown, pontifical,
             portentous]