The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word STILTED , but the solution may also be OVERWEENING which is one of the most recent solution (2011 in LA Times).
Pompous crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| STILTED | 32 % | 7 |
| HIFALUTIN | 13 % | 9 |
| HOITYTOITY | 10 % | 10 |
| BOMBASTIC | 6 % | 9 |
| GRANDIOSE | 6 % | 9 |
| STILTY | 6 % | 6 |
| OVERWEENING | 3 % | 11 |
| STUFFY | 3 % | 6 |
| SNOOTY | 3 % | 6 |
| TUMID | 3 % | 5 |
| TURGID | 3 % | 6 |
| OROTUND | 3 % | 7 |
| PROUDASAPEACOCK | 3 % | 15 |
| STODGY | 3 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Pompous
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- pretentious
- grandiloquent
- overblown
- portentous
- pontifical
- high-sounding
- high-flown
- bombastic
- emphatic
- high-minded
- grand
- grandiose
Crossword Answer definitions
STILTED verb- To raise on stilts, or as if on stilts
- Making use of or possessing a stilt or stilts, or things resembling stilts; raised on stilts.
- Elevated or raised in a contrived or unnatural way; stiff and artificially formal or pompous; also, depending on redundant, unnecessary elements.
- Of a building or architectural feature such as an arch or vault: supported by stilts; also (generally) having the main part raised above the usual level by some structure.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result STILTED
- Artificially formal
- Contrived
- Overly formal
- Stiffly formal
- Pompous
- Like awkwardly formal speech
- Stiffly dignified, as prose
- Wooden in manner
- Stiffly dignified
- Very constrained
More clues leading to the result HIFALUTIN
More clues leading to the result HOITYTOITY
- Pretentious
- Pompous
- Putting on airs
- Highfalutin
- Condescending
- Putting on airs; flighty.
- Patronizing.
- Assuming airs
- High-hat
- Arrogant
More clues leading to the result BOMBASTIC
More clues leading to the result GRANDIOSE
- More elaborate than necessary
- Impressive.
- Affectedly splendid.
- Pompous and showy.
- Imposing.
- Pompous.
- Pompous
- Flamboyant
- Exaggeratedly impressive
- Pretentiously inflated
More clues leading to the result STILTY
More clues leading to the result OVERWEENING
More clues leading to the result STUFFY
- Strait-laced
- Priggish
- Poorly ventilated
- Lacking fresh air
- Old fogyish.
- Old-fashioned: Colloq.
- Prim: Colloq.
- Close
- Pompous
- Needing nasal spray
More clues leading to the result SNOOTY
- Highfalutin'
- Pompous
- High-hatted
- Nose-in-the-air
- Above-it-all
- Condescending
- Putting on airs
- Hoity-toity
- Supercilious
- Elitist
More clues leading to the result TUMID
- Bombastic
- Swollen
- Grandiose, as rhetoric
- Swollen.
- Pompous.
- Protuberant
- Pompous; bombastic
- Puffy
- Ostentatiously lofty in style
More clues leading to the result TURGID
More clues leading to the result OROTUND
- Rich-voiced
- Sonorous
- Full-voiced
- Full-sounding
- Bombastic.
- Flowery of speech.
- Ringing and musical, said of the voice.
- Full-sounding.
- Resonant.
- Pompous
More clues leading to the result PROUDASAPEACOCK
- "So" confident
- SELF-SATISFIED
- Showing excessive self-esteem
- Strutting and bragging
- Eminently satisfied with oneself
- Utterly self-satisfied
- Pompous
- Very vain
- Quite vain
- Cliché descended from Chaucer.