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pretentious


adjective
1. making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction
- a pretentious country house
- a pretentious fraud
- a pretentious scholarly edition
Ant:
unpretentious
Similar to:
arty, artsy-craftsy, arty-crafty, grandiloquent, overblown,
pompous, pontifical, portentous, grandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin,
highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da, high-flown, high-sounding, inflated,
inflated, nouveau-riche, parvenu, parvenue, upstart,
sententious, sesquipedalian
See Also:
tasteless
Derivationally related forms:
pretense, pretentiousness
2. intended to attract notice and impress others
- an ostentatious sable coat
Syn:
ostentatious
Ant:
unostentatious (for: ostentatious)
Similar to:
flaunty, flamboyant, showy, splashy
Derivationally related forms:
pretentiousness, ostentation (for: ostentatious), ostentatiousness (for: ostentatious)
3. (of a display) tawdry or vulgar
Syn:
ostentatious
Similar to:
tasteless
Derivationally related forms:
pretentiousness, ostentatiousness (for: ostentatious)

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