pontifical

  • (a) proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles
    • papal dispensation
    apostolical, papal, apostolic,
  • (a) denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops episcopal,
  • (s) puffed up with vanity
    • a grandiloquent and boastful manner
    • overblown oratory
    • a pompous speech
    • "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
    overblown, pompous, grandiloquent, portentous,

Nouns

  • (n) the vestments and other insignia of a pontiff (especially a bishop)

Synonyms

apostolical papal apostolic episcopal overblown pompous grandiloquent portentous

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