WordNet: pretentious
making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition"
- also see tasteless
- similar to arty
- similar to artsy-craftsy, arty-crafty
- similar to high-flown, high-sounding, inflated
- similar to jumped-up
- similar to nouveau-riche, parvenu, parvenue, upstart
- similar to sententious
- similar to sesquipedalian
pretentious
- (englanti) unpretentious (antonym)
- (englanti) pretentiousness (derivationally related)
- (englanti) pretense (derivationally related)
- (suomi) mahtaileva (synonyymi)
- (suomi) suurellinen (synonyymi)