pompous
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源自中古英語 pompous,源自古法語 pompeux,源自晚期拉丁語 pomposus,源自拉丁語 pompa (「壯麗」),源自古希臘語 πομπή (pompḗ, 「派遣;莊重的隊列;壯觀,壯麗」),源自πέμπω (pémpō, 「派遣」)。pomposo的同源對似詞。
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pompous (比較級 more pompous,最高級 most pompous)
- 自傲的,高傲的,浮誇的,華而不實的
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], 出版於 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."
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- 「pompous」, Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, OCLC 800618302
- 「pompous」, The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, OCLC 867766587
- OneLook 在線詞典 上有關 pompous 的釋義