How do you pronounce pontificate?

pontificate is pronounced as /ˈpɒntɪfɪkeɪt/.

🗣️pontificate

verb

/ˈpɒntɪfɪkeɪt/

to speak or act in a pompous or dogmatic way; to officiate as a pontiff

He pontificated on the importance of education for over an hour.

preach, sermonize, expound, declaim

listen, keep quiet

pontificate on, pontificate about, pontificate endlessly

to make something legally invalid or ineffective

to come together to form one whole or unite into a single entity

To bring under domination or control, especially by conquest.

to plan and create something with a particular purpose or look

To make a copy of something; to generate offspring.

to make something bigger or increase in size