| ADJECTIVE | all | ostentatious, pretentious | intended to attract notice and impress others |
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| all | ostentatious, pretentious | (of a display) tawdry or vulgar |
| Sounds | aa.stahntey'shahs | |
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| Rhymes | abacus ... zealous: 1164 rhymes with ahs... | |
| Meaning | Intended to attract notice and impress others. | |
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| Example | "an ostentatious sable coat" | |
| Synonym | pretentious | |
| Narrower | flamboyant, showy, splashy | Marked by ostentation but often tasteless |
| flaunty | Inclined to flaunt | |
| Opposite | unostentatious, unpretentious, unpretending | not ostentatious |
| Spanish | fastuoso, ostentoso, pretencioso, rimbombante | |
| Catalan | fastuós, ostentós, pretenciós | |
| Nouns | ostentation | pretentious / pretentious or showy or vulgar display |
| ostentation | a gaudy outward display | |
| ostentatiousness | lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity | |
| Adverbs | ostentatiously | with ostentation |
| Meaning | (of a display) tawdry or vulgar. | |
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| Synonym | pretentious | |
| Broader | tasteless | lacking aesthetic or social taste |
| Spanish | ostentoso, pretencioso | |
| Nouns | ostentatiousness, splashiness | lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity |
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