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pretentiousadjective self-consciously trying to present an appearance of grandeur or importancethat pretentious couple always serves caviar at their parties, even though they themselves dislike it affected, grandiose, highfalutin(also hifalutin), high-minded, la-di-da(also la-de-da or lah-de-dah or lah-dee-dah or lah-di-dah), ostentatious, pompous, snippy airy, grandiloquent, high-flown, high-sounding, high-toned, sententiousarrogant, bumptious, complacent, conceited, egoistic(also egoistical), egotistic(or egotistical), high-and-mighty, high-handed, high-hat, hoity-toity, imperious, important, overweening, presumptuous, prideful, proud, self-asserting, self-assertive, self-centered, self-complacent, self-conceited, self-important, self-obsessed, self-pleased, self-satisfied, smug, uppity, vain, vaingloriousself-aggrandizing, self-dramatizing, self-glorifying, self-promotingcavalier, disdainful, haughty, lordly, snobbish, snobby, stuck-up, supercilious, superiorconfident, self-assured, self-confident, sureboastful, braggart, braggingaggressive, assertive, audacious, bold, brassy, cheeky, cocky, forward, impudent, insolent, rudeflamboyant, flashy, flaunting, garish, gaudy, glitzy, showy, splashy modest, unpretentious demure, down-to-earth, homely, humble, lowly, meek, retiring, unassertive, unassumingbashful, diffident, mousy(or mousey), overmodest, passive, quiet, reserved, shy, timid having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitudea pretentious author whose books only appeal to equally pretentious readers arrogant, assumptive, bumptious, cavalier, chesty, haughty, high-and-mighty, high-handed, high-hat, highfalutin(also hifalutin), huffish, huffy, imperious, important, lofty, lordly, masterful, overweening, peremptory, pompous, presuming, presumptuous, self-asserting, self-assertive, sniffy, stiff-necked, supercilious, superior, toplofty(also toploftical), uppish, uppity authoritarian, bossy, dominant, dominating, domineering, magisterial, pontifical, pontificatingcondescending, disdainful, patronizingimpertinent, impudent, saucysnobbish, snobby, snootyblusterous, blustery, boastful, bombastic, braggart, bragging, braggy, cocky, swaggering, vain, vaingloriouscomplacent, conceited, egocentric, egoistic(also egoistical), egotistic(or egotistical), hubristic, narcissistic, orgulous, prideful, proud, self-affected, self-applauding, self-centered, self-complacent, self-conceited, self-pleased, self-satisfied, smug, stuck-upself-flattering, self-loving, self-promotingbrash, forward, uninhibited, unreservedextroverted(also extraverted), immodest humble, lowly, modest, unarrogant, unpretentious bashful, cowering, cringing, demure, diffident, introverted, mousy(or mousey), overmodest, self-critical, self-doubting, sheepish, shrinking, shy, subdued, timidacquiescent, compliant, deferential, meek, passive, submissive, unaggressive, unassertive, unassuming, unobtrusive, yieldingquiet, reserved, retiring showy, pretentious, ostentatious mean given to excessive outward display.showy implies an imposing or striking appearance but usually suggests cheapness or poor taste.the performers' showy costumes pretentious implies an appearance of importance not justified by the thing's value or the person's standing.a pretentious parade of hard words ostentatious stresses vainglorious display or parade.the ostentatious summer homes of the rich in 1832 |