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| ADJECTIVE | 1 | pretentious | Making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction |
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| 2 | pretentious, ostentatious | Intended to attract notice and impress others | |
| 3 | pretentious, ostentatious, kitsch | Of a display that is tawdry or vulgar |
| Sounds | priyteh'nshahs |
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| Rhymes | abacus, abruptness, absoluteness, and 1127 more rhymes in ahs... |
| Meaning | Making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction. |
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| Examples | "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition" |
| Contrary | unpretentious |
| Similar | 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; sententious; sesquipedalian |
| See also | tasteless |
| Nouns | pretense; pretentiousness |
| Adverbs | pretentiously |
| Meaning | Intended to attract notice and impress others. |
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| Synonyms | ostentatious |
| Contrary | unostentatious, unpretentious, unpretending |
| Similar | flaunty; showy, splashy |
| Nouns | pretentiousness |
| Meaning | Of a display that is tawdry or vulgar. |
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| Synonyms | ostentatious, kitsch |
| Similar to | tasteless |
| Nouns | pretentiousness |
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