Definitions for: Pretentious


[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



Webster (1913) 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.

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)

Antonyms: unostentatious, unpretentious

See Also: in poor taste(p), tasteless

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