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Defenition of the word pretentious

    • Defenition of the word pretentious

      • Having extreme self-confidence and overbearing pride.
      • intended to attract notice and impress others; "an ostentatious sable coat"
      • of a display that is tawdry or vulgar
      • making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition"
      • intended to attract notice and impress others
      • making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction
      • (of a display) tawdry or vulgar

    Synonyms for the word pretentious

      • kitsch
      • ostentatious

    Similar words in the pretentious

      • artsy-craftsy
      • arty
      • arty-crafty
      • conspicuous
      • flaunty
      • grandiloquent
      • grandiose
      • hifalutin
      • high-flown
      • high-flying
      • high-sounding
      • highfalutin
      • highfaluting
      • hoity-toity
      • in poor taste
      • in poor taste(p)
      • inflated
      • jumped-up
      • la-di-da
      • nouveau-riche
      • overblown
      • parvenu
      • parvenue
      • pompous
      • pontifical
      • portentous
      • sententious
      • sesquipedalian
      • showy
      • splashy
      • tasteless
      • upstart
      • upstart(a)

    Antonyms for the word pretentious

      • unostentatious
      • unpretending
      • unpretentious

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