Pompous vs Thoughtful - What's the difference?
pompous | thoughtful |
Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.
* 1848, , Bantam Classics (1997), 16:
Demonstrating thought or careful consideration.
*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
, passage=But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.}}
Demonstrating kindness or consideration for others.
As adjectives the difference between pompous and thoughtful
is that pompous is affectedly grand, solemn or self-important while thoughtful is demonstrating thought or careful consideration.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."