| 单词 | pretension |
| 释义 | pretension (once / 672 pages) n Pretension is what you're guilty of when you boorishly try to impress other people with how important or clever you are. When you speak with pretension, you're boastful and you puff yourself up as someone very important or of great worth. If you have literary pretentions, you mostly likely think you're a great writer, but you most likely are not. As you might imagine, this word has the same Latin roots as pretend and pretense. A pretension can also be the advancing of a claim. WORD FAMILYpretension: pretensions+/pretense: pretenses, pretension, pretentious/pretentious: pretentiously, pretentiousness, unpretentious/unpretentious: unpretentiously, unpretentiousness USAGE EXAMPLESOr it may be said approvingly of its lack of pretension. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) Despite the Arab League’s pretensions to brotherhood, visa-free travel among its 22 countries is unusual. Economist(Nov 28, 2016) On the liberal left, tragically, we do not have Bernie Sanders, who would have dispatched Trump’s populist pretensions with a wrist flick. The Guardian(Nov 03, 2016) 1n the advancing of a claim his pretension to the crown the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort Hyper claim an assertion of a right (as to money or property) 2n a false or unsupportable quality Syn|Hyper pretence, pretense artificiality the quality of being produced by people and not occurring naturally 3n the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth) Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper largeness, pretentiousness unpretentiousness the quality of being natural and without pretensions ostentation pretentious or showy or vulgar display unnaturalness the quality of being unnatural or not based on natural principles |
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