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pretentious, adj.
more info intended to attract notice and impress others
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ostentatious pretentious

sample sentences

"an ostentatious sable coat"
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derivationally related form
ostentation ostentation ostentatiousness
antonym
unostentatious
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derivationally related form
pretentiousness
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similar to
flaunty showy, flamboyant, splashy
more info making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction
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pretentious

sample sentences

"a pretentious country house"
"a pretentious fraud"
"a pretentious scholarly edition"
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derivationally related form
pretense pretentiousness
antonym
unpretentious
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also see
tasteless
similar to
arty artsy-craftsy, arty-crafty pompous, grandiloquent, overblown, pontifical, portentous grandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da high-flown, high-sounding, inflated jumped-up nouveau-riche, parvenu, parvenue, upstart sententious sesquipedalian
more info (of a display) tawdry or vulgar
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ostentatious pretentious
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derivationally related form
ostentatiousness splashiness
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
pretentiousness
semantic pointers
similar to
tasteless