Examples:
- a pretentious country house
- a pretentious fraud
- a pretentious scholarly edition
Antonyms:unpretentious
Derivationally Related Form:pretensepretentiousness
Inherited Hypernyms:pretentious
Similar to:artsy-craftsy arty-crafty arty grandiloquent overblown pompous pontifical portentous grandiose hifalutin highfalutin highfaluting hoity-toity la-di-da high-flown high-sounding inflated jumped-up nouveau-riche parvenu parvenue upstart sententious sesquipedalian
See also:tasteless