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pretentious

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1 pretentious

Making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction.

Roget 855: affected, full of affectation, pretentious, pedantic, stilted, stagy, theatrical, big-sounding, ad captandum; canting, insincere.    not natural, unnatural; ... meer laten zien

Roget 884: boasting etc. v.; magniloquent, flaming, Thrasonic, stilted, gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious, soi-disant [Fr.]; vainglorious ... meer laten zien

Roget 925: undue; unlawful etc. (illegal) 964; unconstitutional; illicit; unauthorized, unwarranted, disallowed, unallowed, unsanctioned, unjustified; ... meer laten zien

Pools: pretensjonalny

2 pretentious

Intended to attract notice and impress others.

synoniem: ostentatious.

Roget 880: vain, vain as a peacock, proud as a peacock; conceited, overweening, pert, forward; vainglorious, high-flown; ostentatious etc. 882; puffed up, inflated, ... meer laten zien

Roget 882: ostentatious, showy, dashing, pretentious; janty, jaunty; grand, pompous, palatial; high-sounding; turgid etc. (big-sounding) 577; ... meer laten zien

Pools: ostentacyjny

3 pretentious

of a display Tawdry or vulgar.

synoniem: ostentatious.


Moby betekeniswoordenboek: Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Johnsonian, Marinistic, affected, ambitious, arrogant, artificial, arty, aureate, bedizened, big, big-sounding, bombastic, chichi, classy, convoluted, declamatory, elaborate, elaborated ... meer laten zien.

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