Hoa lệ, tráng lệ; phô trương long trọng

Khoa trương, kêu mà rỗng, đại ngôn (văn)

pompous language

ngôn ngữ khoa trương (tức là những lời rất kêu)

Vênh vang, tự đắc (người)

a pompous official

một viên chức vênh vang

adjective

affected , bloated , boastful , bombastic , conceited , flatulent , flaunting , flowery , fustian , grandiloquent , grandiose , high and mighty * , highfaluting * , high-flown * , imperious , important , inflated , magisterial , magniloquent , narcissistic , orotund , ostentatious , overbearing , overblown , pontifical , portentous , presumptuous , pretentious , puffed up , puffy * , rhetorical , self-centered , self-important , selfish , showy , sonorous , stuck-up * , supercilious , turgid , uppity * , vain , vainglorious , windy * , hoity-toity , puffed-up , puffy , aloof , arrogant , august , bumptious , canting , condescending , consequential , disdainful , egotistic , fatuous , grandiose seebombastic , haughty , highfaluting , huffish , huffy , imposing , insolent , la-di-da , large , lofty , officious , patronizing , pious , preachy , proud , pushy , rubescent , sanctimonious , sententious , smug , sniffy , snobbish , snooty , snotty , stately , stilted , strutting , stuck-up , swaggering , theatrical , tumid , uppish , uppity

adjective

dull , modest , plain , simple , unassuming