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pontifical
adjective
noun
puffed up with vanity
Quick reference
Word Facts
- Word length
- 10
- Starts with
- P
- Ends with
- L
- Contains
- ONTIFICA
- Scrabble score
- 17
- Database source
- OEWN 2025 Core
Meaning
Definitions
adjective
puffed up with vanity
“a grandiloquent and boastful manner”
adjective
denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops
adjective
proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles
“papal dispensation”
noun
the vestments and other insignia of a pontiff (especially a bishop)
In context
Example Sentences
a grandiloquent and boastful manner
overblown oratory
a pompous speech
{'source': 'Newsweek', 'text': 'pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey'}
papal dispensation
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