pretentious 音標拼音: [prit'ɛnʃəs]
a . 自負的,自任不凡的,夸耀的
自負的,自任不凡的,誇耀的
pretentious adj 1 :
making claim to or creating an appearance of (
often undeserved )
importance or distinction ; "
a pretentious country house "; "
a pretentious fraud "; "
a pretentious scholarly edition " [
ant : {
unpretentious }]
2 :
intended to attract notice and impress others ; "
an ostentatious sable coat " [
synonym : {
ostentatious }, {
pretentious }]
[
ant : {
unostentatious }, {
unpretending }, {
unpretentious }]
3 : (
of a display )
tawdry or vulgar [
synonym : {
ostentatious },
{
pretentious }]
Pretentious \
Pre *
ten "
tious \,
a . [
Cf .
F .
pr ['
e ]
tentieux .
See {
Pretend }.]
Full of pretension ;
disposed to lay claim to more than is one '
s ;
presuming ;
assuming . -- {
Pre *
ten "
tious *
ly },
adv . --
{
Pre *
ten "
tious *
ness },
n .
[
1913 Webster ]
114 Moby Thesaurus words for "
pretentious ":
Gongoresque ,
Gongoristic ,
Johnsonian ,
Marinistic ,
affected ,
ambitious ,
arrogant ,
artificial ,
arty ,
aureate ,
bedizened ,
big ,
big -
sounding ,
bombastic ,
chichi ,
classy ,
convoluted ,
declamatory ,
elaborate ,
elaborated ,
elevated ,
euphuistic ,
exaggerated ,
extravagant ,
fancy ,
feigned ,
flamboyant ,
flaming ,
flashy ,
flaunting ,
flossy ,
flowery ,
fulsome ,
garish ,
gassy ,
gaudy ,
grandiloquent ,
grandiose ,
grandisonant ,
haughty ,
high and mighty ,
high -
flowing ,
high -
flown ,
high -
flying ,
high -
hat ,
high -
sounding ,
high -
swelling ,
high -
toned ,
highfalutin ,
highfaluting ,
histrionic ,
hoity -
toity ,
hyperelegant ,
imposing ,
inflated ,
inkhorn ,
insincere ,
la -
di -
da ,
labyrinthine ,
lexiphanic ,
lofty ,
lurid ,
magniloquent ,
maniere ,
mannered ,
meretricious ,
mincing ,
orotund ,
ostentatious ,
overacted ,
overblown ,
overdone ,
overelaborate ,
overelegant ,
overinvolved ,
overnice ,
overrefined ,
overwrought ,
peacockish ,
peacocky ,
pedantic ,
pompous ,
precieuse ,
precieux ,
precious ,
put -
on ,
rhetorical ,
sensational ,
sensationalistic ,
sententious ,
showy ,
snobbish ,
snotty ,
sonorous ,
splashy ,
stagy ,
stilted ,
studied ,
superficial ,
swank ,
swollen ,
tall ,
theatrical ,
tony ,
too -
too ,
tortuous ,
tumid ,
turgid ,
unnatural ,
utopian ,
vainglorious ,
vaunting ,
visionary ,
windy
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