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def |
making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction |
examples |
a pretentious country house a pretentious fraud a pretentious scholarly edition
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Outgoing links |
Also see |
tasteless |
Derivationally related form |
pretentious → pretense; pretentious → pretentiousness |
Antonym |
pretentious → unpretentious |
Similar to |
arty; artsy-craftsy, arty-crafty; grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous; grandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da; high-flown, high-sounding, inflated; jumped-up; nouveau-riche, parvenu, parvenue, upstart(a); sententious; sesquipedalian |
Incoming links |
Similar to |
arty; artsy-craftsy, arty-crafty; grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous; grandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da; high-flown, high-sounding, inflated; jumped-up; nouveau-riche, parvenu, parvenue, upstart(a); sententious; sesquipedalian |
Antonym |
unpretentious → pretentious |
Also see |
tasteless |
Derived from adjective |
pretentiously → pretentious |
Derivationally related form |
pretentiousness → pretentious; pretense → pretentious |
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