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Defenition of the word pontifical

    • Defenition of the word pontifical

      • puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
      • denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops
      • proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles; "papal dispensation"
      • the vestments and other insignia of a pontiff (especially a bishop)
      • puffed up with vanity
      • proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles

    Synonyms for the word pontifical

      • grandiloquent
      • overblown
      • pompous
      • portentous

    Similar words in the pontifical

      • pretentious

    Hypernyms for the word pontifical

      • vestment

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