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pretentious 音标拼音: [prit'ɛnʃəs] a. 自负的,自任不凡的,夸耀的 自负的,自任不凡的,夸耀的 pretentious adj 1: making claim to or creating an appearance of ( often undeserved) importance or distinction; " a pretentious country house"; " a pretentious fraud"; " a pretentious scholarly edition" [ ant: { unpretentious}] 2: intended to attract notice and impress others; " an ostentatious sable coat" [ synonym: { ostentatious}, { pretentious}] [ ant: { unostentatious}, { unpretending}, { unpretentious}] 3: ( of a display) tawdry or vulgar [ synonym: { ostentatious}, { pretentious}] Pretentious \ Pre* ten" tious\, a. [ Cf. F. pr[' e] tentieux. See { Pretend}.] Full of pretension; disposed to lay claim to more than is one' s; presuming; assuming. -- { Pre* ten" tious* ly}, adv. -- { Pre* ten" tious* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 114 Moby Thesaurus words for " pretentious": Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Johnsonian, Marinistic, affected, ambitious, arrogant, artificial, arty, aureate, bedizened, big, big- sounding, bombastic, chichi, classy, convoluted, declamatory, elaborate, elaborated, elevated, euphuistic, exaggerated, extravagant, fancy, feigned, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, flossy, flowery, fulsome, garish, gassy, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, haughty, high and mighty, high- flowing, high- flown, high- flying, high- hat, high- sounding, high- swelling, high- toned, highfalutin, highfaluting, histrionic, hoity- toity, hyperelegant, imposing, inflated, inkhorn, insincere, la- di- da, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, magniloquent, maniere, mannered, meretricious, mincing, orotund, ostentatious, overacted, overblown, overdone, overelaborate, overelegant, overinvolved, overnice, overrefined, overwrought, peacockish, peacocky, pedantic, pompous, precieuse, precieux, precious, put- on, rhetorical, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy, snobbish, snotty, sonorous, splashy, stagy, stilted, studied, superficial, swank, swollen, tall, theatrical, tony, too- too, tortuous, tumid, turgid, unnatural, utopian, vainglorious, vaunting, visionary, windy
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