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Theatrical vs Pompous - What's the difference?

theatrical | pompous |

As adjectives the difference between theatrical and pompous

is that theatrical is of or relating to the theatre while pompous is affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.

As a noun theatrical

is a stage performance, especially one by amateurs.

theatrical

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to the theatre.
  • * 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
  • The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
  • Fake and exaggerated.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A stage performance, especially one by amateurs.
  • pompous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.
  • * 1848, , Bantam Classics (1997), 16:
  • "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 also

    Antonyms

    * humble * modest * self-effacing