Meaning of PRETENTIOUS
| Pronunciation: | | pree'tenshus
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- [adj] intended to attract notice and impress others; "an ostentatious sable coat"
- [adj] making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition"
- [adj] of a display that is tawdry or vulgar
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| | Synonyms: | | artsy-craftsy, arty, arty-crafty, conspicuous, flaunty, grandiloquent, grandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, hoity-toity, inflated, jumped-up, kitsch, la-di-da, nouveau-riche, ostentatious, overblown, parvenu, parvenue, pompous, pontifical, portentous, sententious, sesquipedalian, showy, splashy, upstart(a) |
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| | Antonyms: | | unostentatious, unpretentious | | |
| | See Also: | | in poor taste(p), tasteless | |
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| | Definition: | | \Pre*ten"tious\, a. [Cf. F. pr['e]tentieux. See
{Pretend}.]
Full of pretension; disposed to lay claim to more than is
one's; presuming; assuming. -- {Pre*ten"tious*ly}, adv. --
{Pre*ten"tious*ness}, n.
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