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pretentious
adjective
(pre-ten-tious)
intended to attract notice and impress others
Synonyms:
ostentatious
,
pretentious
adjective
(pre-ten-tious)
(of a display) tawdry or vulgar
Synonyms:
ostentatious
,
pretentious
adjective
(pre-ten-tious)
making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction
Antonyms:
unpretentious
,
Examples:
A pretentious country house.
A pretentious fraud.
A pretentious scholarly edition.
Words Related to
pretentious
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pompous
,
arty
,
highfalutin
,
grandiloquent
,
hifalutin
,
showy
,
sententious
,
kitsch
,
ostentatious
,
grandiose
,
portentous
,
parvenu
,
tasteless
,
highfaluting
,
sesquipedalian
,
overblown
,
splashy
,
conspicuous
,
pontifical
,
upstart
,
inflated
,
artsy-craftsy
,
arty-crafty
,
flaunty
,
high-flown
,
high-flying
,
high-sounding
,
hoity-toity
,
in poor taste
,
jumped-up
,
la-di-da
,
nouveau-riche
,
parvenue
,
conceited
,
presumptuous
,
cocky
,
overdressed
,
thoughtless
,
lofty
,
douchebag
,
stuck-up
,
snobby
,
snobbish
,
snooty
,
pedantic
,
egotistical
,
trite
,
smug
,
cliched
,
preachy
,
vapid
,
corny
,
highbrow
,
melodramatic
,
vacuous
,
obnoxious
,
sophomoric
,
obtuse
,
unoriginal
,
tacky
,
effete
,
overwrought
,
snotty
,
artsy
,
silly
,
supercilious
,
whiny
,
uninteresting
,
humorless
,
cutesy
,
elitist
,
unimaginative
,
crass
,
puerile
,
snarky
,
lexiphanicism
,
toplofty
,
twee
,
condescending
,
cloying
,
lexiphanic
,
unpompous
,
cheesy
,
overdetermined
,
philistine
,
hackneyed
,
solipsistic
,
sniffy
,
banal
,
glib
,
lowbrow
,
maudlin
,
deconstructionist
,
uncool
,
mawkish
,
hokey
,
nabokovian
,
reductive
,
altiloquent
,
stagey
,
pretentious
Examples by Brain Bank Users
By: Jamie
From:
Words in the News - December 2018
No one likes a pretentious douche-bag.
Someone using big words around uneducated people is pretentious. A group of smart people using big words is also a group of pretentious people.