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Adjectives (5)
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pretentious
adj. making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition"
ostentatious, pretentious
adj. (of a display) tawdry or vulgar
ostentatious, pretentious
adj. intended to attract notice and impress others; "an ostentatious sable coat"
Fuzzynyms (39)
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bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid
adj. ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
ostentatious, pretentious
adj. (of a display) tawdry or vulgar
aureate, florid, flamboyant
adj. elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech"
rhetorical
adj. given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought; "mere rhetorical frippery"
expressive
adj. characterized by expression; "a very expressive face"
dandified, dandyish, foppish
adj. affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner
grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous
adj. puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
arrogant, chesty, self-important
adj. having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims"; "chesty as a peacock"
bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid
adj. ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
pretentious
adj. making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition"
aureate, florid, flamboyant
adj. elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech"
baroque, Baroque
adj. of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750
elaborate, luxuriant
adj. marked by complexity and richness of detail; "an elaborate lace pattern"
sporty
adj. appropriate for sport or engagement in a sport
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barbaric
adj. unrestrained and crudely rich; "barbaric use of color or ornament"
brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy
adj. tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
camp, campy
adj. providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities; "they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect"; "campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's"
indelicate, off-color, off-colour
adj. in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent; "an indelicate remark"; "an off-color joke"
Antonyms (6)
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unpretentious
adj. lacking pretension or affectation; "an unpretentious country church"; "her quiet unpretentious demeanor"
modest
adj. free from pomp or affectation; "comfortable but modest cottages"; "a simple rectangular brick building"; "a simple man with simple tastes"
plain
adj. not elaborate or elaborated; simple; "plain food"; "stuck to the plain facts"; "a plain blue suit"; "a plain rectangular brick building"
unostentatious, unpretentious, unpretending
adj. not ostentatious; "his unostentatious office"; "unostentatious elegance"
pretentious
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