pontifical, adj.
puffed up with vanity
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2
grandiloquent overblown pompous pontifical portentous
sample sentences
"a grandiloquent and boastful manner""overblown oratory"
"a pompous speech"
"pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
similar to
denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops
<adj.pert>
episcopal pontifical
lexical pointers
derived from/pertains to
proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles
<adj.pert> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
apostolic apostolical papal pontifical