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English adjective: pretentious | |||
| 1. | pretentious making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction | ||
| Samples | A pretentious country house. A pretentious fraud. A pretentious scholarly edition. | ||
| Similar | artsy-craftsy, arty, arty-crafty, grandiloquent, grandiose, hifalutin, high-flown, high-sounding, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, inflated, jumped-up, la-di-da, nouveau-riche, overblown, parvenu, parvenue, pompous, pontifical, portentous, sententious, sesquipedalian, upstart | ||
| See also | tasteless | ||
| Antonyms | unpretentious | ||
| 2. | pretentious intended to attract notice and impress others | ||
| Samples | An ostentatious sable coat. | ||
| Synonyms | ostentatious | ||
| Similar | flamboyant, flaunty, showy, splashy | ||
| Antonyms | unostentatious, unpretending, unpretentious | ||
| 3. | pretentious (of a display) tawdry or vulgar | ||
| Synonyms | ostentatious | ||
| Similar | tasteless | ||
| Antonyms | tasteful | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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