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pretentious
Overview of adj pretentious
The adj pretentious has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. pretentious -- (making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition")
2. ostentatious, pretentious -- (intended to attract notice and impress others; "an ostentatious sable coat")
3. ostentatious, pretentious, kitsch -- (of a display that is tawdry or vulgar)
Grep of noun pretentious
pretentiousness
Antonyms of adj pretentious
3 senses of pretentious
Sense 1
pretentious (vs. unpretentious)
unpretentious (vs. pretentious)
=> honest
=> modest
=> unpompous
Sense 2
ostentatious (vs. unostentatious), pretentious
Sense 3
ostentatious, pretentious, kitsch
INDIRECT (VIA tasteless) -> tasteful
Similarity of adj pretentious
3 senses of pretentious
Sense 1
pretentious (vs. unpretentious)
=> 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(prenominal)
=> sententious
=> sesquipedalian
Also See> tasteless#2
Sense 2
ostentatious (vs. unostentatious), pretentious
=> flaunty
=> showy, splashy
Sense 3
ostentatious, pretentious, kitsch
=> tasteless (vs. tasteful)
Pertainyms of adj pretentious
Attributes of adj pretentious
Domain of adj pretentious
Domain Terms of adj pretentious
Familiarity of adj pretentious
pretentious used as an adjective is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Grep of adj pretentious
pretentious
unpretentious
Grep of adv pretentious
pretentiously
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