pompously
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.78 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "When he went home on leave he rioted on a large scale - pompously."
- "That young man could offer little information, however. The sky, he explained pompously, was a great mystery that only an adept might communicate to another. He meant that he didn't know about it, Dave gathered."
- "'I could cite good reasons both for and against such a course of action,' he began pompously."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more pompously (comparative)
most pompously (superlative)