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If you call someone pompous, you are saying they think they are more important than they are. They show it by being stiff and very formal, and by using long words. It is not a kind word; it shows you do not like that manner. You can also call a speech, a letter, or a tone of voice pompous. Though actually itself can still mean a real grand ceremony, with flags and music and no insult at all. Pompous is the critic's word, for when that has gone into the person's character.
裝腔作勢的、愛擺架子的
組成From Middle English pompous, from Old French pompeux, from Latin pompa (“pomp”), from Greek pompḗ, a solemn sending or procession. Equal to pomp + -ous. Doublet of pomposo.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pompousadj/ˈpɒmpəs/
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Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.
- But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature.
- 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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。