| 单词 | ostentatious |
| 释义 | ostentatious (once / 1511 pages) adj Reach for the adjective ostentatious when you want a flashy way to say — well, "flashy" or "showy." No one wants to be described as ostentatious, a word whose cousins include pretentious, flamboyant, and gaudy. It originates from the Latin word ostentare, "to display," but in English it's often used for displays of the crass or vulgar sort. A rapper's diamond-encrusted teeth might be an ostentatious display of "bling," and someone wailing especially loudly at a funeral of a distant acquaintance might be making an ostentatious show of sorrow. WORD FAMILYostentatious: ostentatiously, ostentatiousness, unostentatious+/ostentate: ostentation/ostentation: ostentations, ostentatious/unostentatious: unostentatiously USAGE EXAMPLESOne argued his firm's party was more austere than in prior years, and that festive Instagram photos with ostentatious hashtags misrepresented it. Reuters(Dec 22, 2016) Our ostentatious passivity is a primary cause of that darkening. Washington Post(Dec 15, 2016) And Boeing was an ostentatious declaration that he would be the zealous guardian of government spending that you would expect from a crusading outsider. Washington Post(Dec 08, 2016) 1adj intended to attract notice and impress others an ostentatious sable coat Syn|Ant pretentious flaunty inclined to flaunt flamboyant, showy, splashymarked by ostentation but often tasteless unostentatious, unpretending, unpretentious not ostentatious quiet, restrainednot showy or obtrusive 2adj (of a display) tawdry or vulgar Syn pretentious tasteless lacking aesthetic or social taste |
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