pretentious[adjective]Synonyms: affected, conceited, grandiloquent, grandiose, high-flown, inflated, mannered, ostentatious, pompous, puffed up, showy, snobbish
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 [TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
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] [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲