pontifical
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the vestments and other insignia of a pontiff (especially a bishop)
Types & categories
- vestment hypernym
Sense 2 adjective
proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles
papal dispensation
Related & opposite
Sense 3 adjective
denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops
Related & opposite
Sense 4 adjective
puffed up with vanity
a grandiloquent and boastful manner
Related & opposite
- pretentiousness derivation
- pomp derivation
- pretentious similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | vestment |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | pope |
| 2 | pertains to | Related & opposite | pope |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | bishop |
| 3 | pertains to | Related & opposite | bishop |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | pretentiousness |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | pomp |
| 4 | similar to | Related & opposite | pretentious |