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Word | Pontifical |
Italian Meaning | pontificio, pontificale, pontificiale, del pontefice, papale |
puffed up with vanity; a grandiloquent and boastful manner; overblown oratory; a pompous speech; pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey- Newsweek / the vestments and other insignia of a pontiff (especially a bishop) / Of or pertaining to a pontiff, or high priest / pertaining to a bishop or pope; pompous or pretentious / (in the Roman Catholic Church) of or relating to the pope. / episcopal attire; specifically : the insignia of the episcopal order worn by a prelate when celebrating a pontifical mass —usually used in plural / a book containing the forms for sacraments and rites performed by a bishop / of, relating to, or coming from a pope, | |
Usage | ⇒ Only after fulfilling all the pontificals one can become a pope ⇒ From the very beginning of his ministry it was clear from his pontifical pronouncements that John was destined for a high pontifical office. ⇒ a theater critic known for his pontifical pronouncements on what is or is not worth seeing ⇒ a pontifical commission |
Synonyms | papal, pompous, apostolic, arrogant, grandiloquent, overblown, clerical, pretentious, apostolical, dogmatic, episcopal, portentous, bombastic, conceited, doctrinaire, ecclesiastical, inflated, magisterial, opinionated, overbearing, |
Antonyms | unpretentious, broadminded, latitudinarian, midget, open, open-minded, receptive, undoctrinaire, undogmatic, |
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