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pretentious    音标拼音: [prit'ɛnʃəs]
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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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  • [OPINION] What makes a poem pretentious? : r Poetry - Reddit
    Or how to avoid being pretentious when writing poems It's curious that - from what I've seen - people seem to consider a poem pretentious when it's using big words, obscure phrases and grandiloquency to convey a simple thing, yet this is the kind of poetry you'll most commonly find in a library, an anthology signing event, a friend's bookcase
  • Most Pretentious food names youve heard : r Cooking - Reddit
    It's pretentious to use french in non french speaking countries to make things sound fancy, yes Of course it is If you were in France, then it would be different But to use french words in the names of your food just to make them sound fancy is obviously pretentious
  • How do I prevent my writing from becoming overly pretentious?
    pretentious and pseudo-intellectual When I see these trotted out, normally it is by someone who is not very smart and who tries covering for it by whipping those out, any time they read something above the level Michael Bay would find stupid and sophomoric Or when someone uses a word like sophomoric
  • Pretentious tendencies among engineers : r EngineeringStudents - Reddit
    The pretentious ones are insecure have nothing else going for them and so they feel the need to make studying engineering their entire identity That being said, there are pretentious people everywhere (ime) Student athletes look down on feel superior to those who dont play sports, art majors talk about how "unrefined" STEM students are, etc
  • I hate Wes Anderson movies : r movies - Reddit
    I get it Wes Depression and your favorite records matched with a bunch of pretentious artsy shots Then there was A Life Aquatic I didn't make it fifteen minutes into the movie It's like a teenager had an unlimited budget for his high school play After that I largely tuned him out, but I just tried to watch Moonrise Kingdom Jesus Christ
  • Pink Floyd is the most overrated band in history - Reddit
    Labelling something 'pretentious' is an easy win as everyone agrees that 'pretentious' is bad even though most people would be hard pressed to say what the word actually means I remember reading an interview with The Moody Blues where their drummer was asked if they were pretentious His answer was 'well, we pretend a lot'
  • Are people on goodreads pretentious af or am I too pleb? : r books - Reddit
    People in the book community in general are pretentious in general Whether it's Goodreads or book twitter or even this subreddit (see: being down voted for saying you should enjoy whatever books you want because life is too short) Don't worry about what others think I'm really glad you found a book you enjoyed! May you find many more :)
  • What do people do that just screams “pretentious” to you?
    Posted by u jbyrd13 - 2,710 votes and 3,640 comments
  • Punk rock is terrible music and a pretentious scene
    me, sitting here, only knowing queer punk kids with DIY clothes that are trying to get by, asking for a buck or there, having grown up in the not - so great part of town, reading your tirade and thinking: ahhhh that's what my scene is like
  • Is anybody else tired of people overusing the term pretentious as a . . .
    Pretentious does not mean artsy, indie, hipster, or incomprehensible It just means that the the importance of its message or story is much lower than it is presented as Sure, the word is overused to the point of meaningless, but pretention is a real thing It's not just a vague word to describe something you dislike





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