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pretentious |
Grep of noun pretentious pretentiousness Overview of adj pretentious The adj pretentious has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1. pretentious -- (making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition") 2. ostentatious, pretentious -- (intended to attract notice and impress others "an ostentatious sable coat") 3. ostentatious, pretentious, kitsch -- (of a display that is tawdry or vulgar) Antonyms of adj pretentious 3 senses of pretentious Sense 1 pretentious (vs. unpretentious) unpretentious (vs. pretentious) => honest => modest => unpompous Sense 2 ostentatious (vs. unostentatious), pretentious Sense 3 ostentatious, pretentious, kitsch INDIRECT (VIA tasteless) -> tasteful, in good taste Similarity of adj pretentious 3 senses of pretentious Sense 1 pretentious (vs. unpretentious) => arty => artsy-craftsy, arty-crafty => grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous => grandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da => high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, inflated => jumped-up => nouveau-riche, parvenu, parvenue, upstart(postnominal) => sententious => sesquipedalian Also See-> tasteless#2, in poor taste#1 Sense 2 ostentatious (vs. unostentatious), pretentious => conspicuous, flaunty => showy, splashy Sense 3 ostentatious, pretentious, kitsch => tasteless (vs. tasteful), in poor taste(prenominal) Attributes of adj pretentious Familiarity of adj pretentious pretentious used as an adjective is uncommon (polysemy count = 3) Grep of adj pretentious pretentious unpretentious Overview of adj pretentious The adj pretentious has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1. pretentious -- (making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition") 2. ostentatious, pretentious -- (intended to attract notice and impress others "an ostentatious sable coat") 3. ostentatious, pretentious, kitsch -- (of a display that is tawdry or vulgar)
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