Rigid vs Pompous - What's the difference?
rigid | pompous | Related terms |
Stiff, rather than flexible.
Fixed, rather than moving.
* 2011 ,David Foster Wallace, The Pale King ,Penguin Books, page 5:
Rigorous and unbending.
Uncompromising.
Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.
* 1848, , Bantam Classics (1997), 16:
Rigid is a related term of pompous.
As adjectives the difference between rigid and pompous
is that rigid is rigid while pompous is affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.rigid
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A sunflower, four more, one bowed, and horses in the distance standing rigid and still as toys.
Synonyms
* unbending, inflexibleAntonyms
* flexible * moving * compromisingDerived terms
* rigidity * rigidly * rigidnessReferences
* *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."