Affected vs Pompous - What's the difference?
affected | pompous | Synonyms |
influenced or changed by something
simulated in order to impress
Emotionally moved; touched.
(algebra, archaic) adfected
Resulting from a mostly negative physical effect or transformation
(affect)
Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.
* 1848, , Bantam Classics (1997), 16:
As adjectives the difference between affected and pompous
is that affected is influenced or changed by something while pompous is affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.As a noun affected
is someone affected, as by a disease.As a verb affected
is past tense of affect.affected
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The affected compass was impossible to use, so we got lost.
- He spoke with an affected English accent.
- an affected equation
See also
* affectationVerb
(head)- The thunderstorm affected the compass, and we got lost.
See also
* effectedpompous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "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 Sedley did not venture, in her presence, to give way to any ebullitions of private grief."