pretentious
English Thesaurus
1. intended to attract notice and impress others (adj.all)
similar | : | flaunty, |
definition | : | inclined to flaunt (adj.all) |
similar | : | flamboyant, showy, splashy, |
definition | : | marked by ostentation but often tasteless (adj.all) |
2. making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction (adj.all)
similar | : | arty, |
definition | : | showily imitative of art or artists (adj.all) |
similar | : | artsy-craftsy, arty-crafty, |
definition | : | pretentiously artistic; cloyingly charming (adj.all) |
similar | : | grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous, |
definition | : | puffed up with vanity (adj.all) |
similar | : | grandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da, |
definition | : | affectedly genteel (adj.all) |
similar | : | high-flown, high-sounding, inflated, |
definition | : | pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals) (adj.all) |
similar | : | jumped-up, |
definition | : | (British informal) upstart (adj.all) |
similar | : | nouveau-riche, parvenu, parvenue, upstart, |
definition | : | characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position (adj.all) |
similar | : | sententious, |
definition | : | abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing (adj.all) |
similar | : | sesquipedalian, |
definition | : | given to the overuse of long words (adj.all) |
also | : | tasteless, |
definition | : | lacking aesthetic or social taste (adj.all) |
3. (of a display) tawdry or vulgar (adj.all)
similar | : | tasteless, |
definition | : | lacking aesthetic or social taste (adj.all) |
4. intended to attract notice and impress others (adj.all)
antonym | : | unostentatious, unpretending, unpretentious, |
definition | : | not ostentatious (adj.all) |
derivation | : | ostentation, |
definition | : | pretentious or showy or vulgar display (noun.attribute) |
derivation | : | inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness, |
definition | : | lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity (noun.attribute) |
derivation | : | fanfare, flash, ostentation, |
definition | : | a gaudy outward display (noun.communication) |
5. making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction (adj.all)
antonym | : | unpretentious, |
definition | : | lacking pretension or affectation (adj.all) |
derivation | : | largeness, pretension, pretentiousness, |
definition | : | the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth) (noun.attribute) |
derivation | : | dissembling, feigning, pretence, pretense, |
definition | : | pretending with intention to deceive (noun.communication) |
6. (of a display) tawdry or vulgar (adj.all)
derivation | : | inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness, |
definition | : | lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity (noun.attribute) |
7. intended to attract notice and impress others (adj.all)
antonym | : | unostentatious, unpretending, unpretentious, |
definition | : | not ostentatious (adj.all) |
derivation | : | ostentation, |
definition | : | pretentious or showy or vulgar display (noun.attribute) |
derivation | : | inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness, |
definition | : | lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity (noun.attribute) |
derivation | : | fanfare, flash, ostentation, |
definition | : | a gaudy outward display (noun.communication) |
8. making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction (adj.all)
antonym | : | unpretentious, |
definition | : | lacking pretension or affectation (adj.all) |
derivation | : | largeness, pretension, pretentiousness, |
definition | : | the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth) (noun.attribute) |
derivation | : | dissembling, feigning, pretence, pretense, |
definition | : | pretending with intention to deceive (noun.communication) |
9. (of a display) tawdry or vulgar (adj.all)
derivation | : | inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness, |
definition | : | lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity (noun.attribute) |
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