/The definitions are confusing, often inaccurate, and sometimes "gratuitously pompous and pretentious", which could cause you to perceive difficulties in grasping what the word you look up for means./
a. 'gratuitously pompous' means ' detailed and complicated unjustifably?'
b. 'gratuitously pretentious' means 'It says the definitions as being larger than it really is?'
Top answer
'Gratuitously pompous' means 'detailed and complicated unjustifiably'.
— Mister Micawber
'Gratuitously pompous' means 'detailed and complicated unjustifiably'.
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