2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ostentatious \Os`ten*ta"tious\, a.
Fond of or evincing, ostentation; unduly conspicuous;
pretentious; boastful.
Far from being ostentatious of the good you do
--Dryden.
The ostentatious professions of many years. --Macaulay.
-- {Os`ten*ta"tious*ly}, adv -- {Os`ten*ta"tious*ness}, n.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
ostentatiously
adv : in an ostentatious manner; "Mr Khrushchev ostentatiously
wooed and embraced Castro at the U.N. general assembly"
[syn: {showily}, {with ostentation}]
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