Pompous vs Snob - What's the difference?
pompous | snob |
Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.
* 1848, , Bantam Classics (1997), 16:
(colloquial) A cobbler or shoemaker.
* 1929 , (Frederic Manning), The Middle Parts of Fortune , Vintage 2014, p. 57:
(dated) A member of the lower classes; a commoner.
* 1844 , (Charles Dickens), Martin Chuzzlewit :
* 1913 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), The Poison Belt :
(informal) A person who wishes to be seen as a member of the upper classes and who looks down on those perceived to have inferior or unrefined tastes.
* 1958 , (Arnold Wesker), Roots :
As an adjective pompous
is affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.As a noun snob is
a cobbler or shoemaker.pompous
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."
Synonyms
* conceited * smug * See alsoAntonyms
* humble * modest * self-effacingExternal links
* * *snob
English
Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia snob)- The snobs were also kind to him, and gave him a pair of boots which they assured him were of a type and quality reserved entirely for officers […].
- 'D'ye know a slap-up sort of button, when you see it?' said the youth. 'Don't look at mine, if you ain't a judge, because these lions' heads was made for men of men of taste: not snobs .'
- I tell you, sir, that I have a brain of my own, and that I should feel myself to be a snob and a slave if I did not use it.
- If wanting the best things in life means being a snob' then glory hallelujah I'm a ' snob .