Synonyms for pretentious
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : pri-ten-shuhs |
| Phonetic Transcription : prɪˈtɛn ʃəs |
Top 10 synonyms for pretentious Other synonyms for the word pretentious
- affected
- assuming
- aureate
- big
- bombastic
- chichi
- conspicuous
- euphuistic
- extravagant
- feigned
- flamboyant
- flashy
- flaunting
- flowery
- gaudy
- grandiloquent
- high-flown
- high-sounding
- highfaluting
- imposing
- inflated
- jazzy
- la-di-da
- lofty
- magniloquent
- mincing
- ornate
- overambitious
- puffed up
- put-on
- rhetorical
- specious
- splashy
- swank
- too-too
- tumid
- utopian
- vainglorious
Définition of pretentious
Origin :- 1836, from French prétentieux (17c.), from prétention "pretension," from Medieval Latin pretentionem (nominative pretentio) "pretension," noun of action from past participle stem of Latin praetendere (see pretend (v.)).
- adj snobbish, conceited
- It is the most pretentious feature of the book, and in its way about as good as any.
- Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine
- The house, too, had a pretentious air about it that promised well.
- Extract from : « Confessions Of Con Cregan » by Charles James Lever
- And Marion delivered this speech with a most oracular and pretentious tone.
- Extract from : « The Bramleighs Of Bishop's Folly » by Charles James Lever
- The High Light proved to be the most pretentious resort in Goldpan.
- Extract from : « The Plunderer » by Roy Norton
- Let no one rashly pronounce me a coxcomb, vain and pretentious, for all this.
- Extract from : « Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2) » by Charles Lever
- I told him, and at once there was a most pretentious hubbub.
- Extract from : « The O'Ruddy » by Stephen Crane
- It had a lofty and pretentious brick church of a modern type.
- Extract from : « The Old Front Line » by John Masefield
- But the Liszt Ballade is so empty, so pretentious, so affected!
- Extract from : « Old Fogy » by James Huneker
- His court, while it is one of the least pretentious in Europe, is yet one of the most refined.
- Extract from : « Foot-prints of Travel » by Maturin M. Ballou
- It was then, if I do say it, the most pretentious home in the city.
- Extract from : « The Loyalist » by James Francis Barrett
Antonyms for pretentious
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