pompously

1. 1.

   in a pompous manner

   “he pompously described his achievements”

Questions about pompously

What does pompously mean?

pompously means "in a pompous manner".

How many syllables are in pompously?

pompously has 3 syllables and divides as pom-pou-sly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is pompously a common word?

pompously is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.