pretentious
[adjective]
Synonyms: affected, conceited, grandiloquent, grandiose, high-flown, inflated, mannered, ostentatious, pompous, puffed up, showy, snobbish

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Antonyms: unpretentious
Contrasted words: heartfelt, hearty, sincere, unfeigned, wholehearted, whole-souled, artless, genuine, natural, simple, unaffected
Related Words: affected, feigned, put-on, pompier, aureate, bombastic, euphuistic, flowery, grandiloquent, magniloquent, rhetorical, inflated, tumid, turgid

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pre‧ten‧tious /prɪˈtenʃəs/ adjective
if someone or something is pretentious, they try to seem more important, intelligent, or high class than they really are in order to be impressive Antonym : unpretentious:
a pretentious film
—pretentiously adverb
—pretentiousness noun [uncountable]

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