Adjective pontifical has 3 senses
- papal, apostolic, apostolical, pontifical - proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles; "papal dispensation"
- episcopal, pontifical - denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops
- grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous - puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
Antonym: unpretentious (indirect, via pretentious)
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