Theatrical vs Pompous - What's the difference?
theatrical | pompous |
Of or relating to the theatre.
* 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
Fake and exaggerated.
Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.
* 1848, , Bantam Classics (1997), 16:
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)- 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.
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."