What is another word for ostentatious?
Pronunciation:
[ ˌɒstəntˈe͡ɪʃəs], [ ˌɒstəntˈeɪʃəs], [ ˌɒ_s_t_ə_n_t_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_s]
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Similar words for ostentatious:
- affected (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- beautiful, tasteful (adjective)
- bombastic (adjective)
- camp (adjective)
- dramatic (adjective)
- egotistical (adjective)
- elegant (adjective)
- extravagant (adjective)
- fancy (adjective)
- fashionable (adjective)
- flagrant (adjective)
- flamboyant (adjective)
- flashy (adjective)
- flaunting (adjective)
- fustian (adjective)
- garish (adjective)
- gaudy (adjective)
- genteel (adjective)
- gorgeous (adjective)
- grand (adjective)
- grandiose (adjective)
- highfalutin (adjective)
- inflated (adjective)
- inkhorn (adjective)
- la-di-da (adjective)
- luxurious (adjective)
- old-maidish (adjective)
- opulent (adjective)
- oratorical (adjective)
- ornate (adjective)
- ostentatious (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- pedantic (adjective)
- plush (adjective)
- pompous (adjective)
- precious (adjective)
- pretentious (adjective)
- proud (adjective)
- puffed-up (adjective)
- restrained (adjective)
- rhetorical (adjective)
- self-respecting (adjective)
- showy (adjective)
- snobbish (adjective)
- solemn (adjective)
- specious (adjective)
- stuck-up (adjective)
- stylish (adjective)
- swank/swanky (adjective)
- tasteless (adjective)
- theatrical (adjective)
- uppish (adjective)
- vain (adjective)
- conspicuous (noun)
- flaunty (noun)
- in poor taste (noun)
- ornamental (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- artificial
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Ostentatious:
adj.
• affected (adjective)- hollow,
- counterfeit,
- insincere,
- phony,
- playacting,
- spurious,
- ham,
- stilted,
- assumed,
- apish,
- high falutin',
- ostentatious,
- artificial,
- pretended,
- contrived,
- self-conscious,
- conceited,
- simulated,
- overdone,
- awkward,
- false,
- schmaltzy,
- put-on,
- melodramatic,
- gone hollywood,
- unnatural,
- Imitated,
- Counterfeited,
- feigned,
- studied,
- shallow,
- stiff,
- superficial,
- faked.
- orotund,
- verbose,
- aureate,
- windbag,
- swollen,
- balderdash,
- histrionic,
- declamatory,
- magniloquent,
- inflated,
- sonorous,
- windy,
- turgid,
- flowery,
- highfalutin,
- stuffed shirt,
- rhapsodic,
- overblown,
- tumid,
- loudmouthed,
- ranting,
- high-flown,
- wordy.
- vain.
- fanciful,
- exorbitant,
- fantastic,
- improvident,
- imprudent,
- preposterous,
- extreme,
- profligate,
- costly,
- absurd,
- unconscionable,
- immoderate,
- bizarre,
- inordinate,
- excessive,
- ludicrous,
- exaggerated,
- outrageous,
- implausible,
- crazy,
- expensive,
- lavish,
- unreasonable,
- foolish,
- unrestrained,
- silly,
- spendthrift,
- steep,
- extortionate,
- reckless,
- nonsensical,
- prodigal,
- ridiculous,
- unbalanced.
- decorative,
- intricate,
- spiffy,
- resplendent,
- deluxe,
- cushy,
- unusual,
- Beautifying,
- baroque,
- special,
- custom,
- adorned,
- florid,
- rococo.
- flaming,
- bold,
- grody,
- immodest,
- rank,
- out-and-out,
- enormous,
- capital,
- shocking,
- infamous,
- bare-faced,
- scandalous,
- noticeable,
- heinous,
- undisguised,
- stick out like sore thumb,
- notorious,
- obvious,
- flagitous,
- wicked,
- shameful,
- disgraceful,
- out and out,
- open,
- hanging out,
- dreadful,
- striking,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- brazen,
- egregious.
- gassier,
- most peacockish,
- more peacockish,
- most swashbuckling,
- gassiest,
- ex citing,
- more swashbuckling.
- more catchpenny,
- more tinsel,
- tawdry,
- most glittery,
- most catchpenny,
- most tinsel,
- more glittery,
- glittering.
- more splendiferous,
- frou frou,
- most frou-frou,
- putting ritz,
- most splendiferous,
- most frou frou,
- more pizzazz,
- more frou-frou,
- putting the ritz,
- more frou frou,
- most pizzazz,
- putting on ritz.
- easy on eyes,
- de lightful,
- dreamest,
- more centerfold,
- de-lightful,
- sub lime,
- most lulu,
- good looking,
- most centerfold,
- most knockout,
- easy eyes,
- more drop dead,
- beauter,
- beautest,
- more lulu,
- more dropdead,
- sub-lime,
- more knockout,
- most dropdead,
- dropdead,
- easy the eyes,
- more drop-dead,
- most drop dead,
- most drop-dead.
- fabber,
- grandest,
- most smashing,
- more dynamite,
- fabbest,
- awe inspiring,
- out standing,
- un-real,
- very good,
- most dynamite,
- aweinspiring,
- firstrate,
- first rate,
- more smashing.
- more dropsical,
- dis-tended,
- over estimated,
- more overestimated,
- most augmented,
- most amplified,
- more dilated,
- ex-tended,
- most magnified,
- more rhapsodical,
- most stretched,
- most dilated,
- more spread,
- more magnified,
- most rhapsodical,
- over-estimated,
- more stretched,
- more surcharged,
- most surcharged,
- most spread,
- most dropsical,
- more aggrandized,
- sur-charged,
- most aggrandized,
- sur charged,
- more amplified,
- most overestimated,
- filled,
- dis tended,
- ex tended,
- more augmented.
- in lap luxury,
- most pleasureloving,
- in the lap luxury,
- fit for a king queen,
- more upscale,
- most pampered,
- more pleasureloving,
- sybaritic,
- pleasure loving,
- up scale,
- more pampered,
- more pleasure loving,
- most pleasure loving,
- well appointed,
- fit for king queen,
- fit for king- queen,
- selfindulgent,
- fit for a king- queen,
- up-scale,
- self indulgent,
- more pleasure-loving,
- most pleasure-loving,
- wellappointed,
- in lap of luxury,
- pleasureloving,
- more luxurious,
- most upscale.
- more upholstered,
- up holstered,
- welloff,
- well heeled,
- most profusive,
- co-pious,
- up-holstered,
- well to do,
- co pious,
- wellheeled,
- more profusive,
- well-heeled,
- most upholstered,
- well off.
- be-decked,
- glossy,
- most jeweled,
- highwrought,
- more highwrought,
- over-elaborate,
- more high wrought,
- more jeweled,
- over elaborate,
- most embroidered,
- more overelaborate,
- more high-wrought,
- most highwrought,
- high wrought,
- most overelaborate,
- High-wrought,
- be decked,
- most bedecked,
- most high wrought,
- most high-wrought,
- more embroidered,
- more bedecked.
- forced,
- dashing,
- exhibitionistic,
- grandiloquent,
- dramatic,
- Tony,
- Flaunted,
- fussy,
- snazzy,
- uptown,
- flourishing,
- jaunty,
- boastful,
- classy,
- shameless,
- rakish,
- gay,
- sensational,
- swank,
- flatulent,
- formal,
- obtrusive,
- spectacular,
- sporty.
- high falutin,
- casuistic,
- Pedantical,
- first class,
- elaborate,
- gussied up,
- swashbuckling,
- overpriced,
- dropsical,
- gingerbread,
- jeweled,
- peacocky,
- fab,
- la-di-da,
- snobbish,
- highfaluting,
- overbold,
- grand,
- gaudy,
- opulent,
- stagier,
- proud,
- Profusive,
- centerfold,
- Froufrou,
- splendiferous,
- splurgy,
- alembicated,
- blatant,
- fancy,
- sophistical,
- pleasure-loving,
- garish,
- upscale,
- with all the extras,
- splashy,
- oratorical,
- bombastic,
- hyperbolic,
- rhetorical,
- camp,
- in the lap of luxury,
- gassy,
- drop-dead,
- formalistic,
- peacockish,
- pedantic,
- stagiest,
- flashy,
- ritzy,
- plushy,
- tasteless,
- Surcharged,
- luxurious,
- out-standing,
- highly wrought,
- frou-frou,
- firstclass,
- Magnific,
- pumped up,
- full of hot air,
- frilly,
- hammy,
- goodlooking,
- gorgeous,
- over-wrought,
- overestimated,
- protrusive,
- with-it,
- specious,
- easy on the eyes,
- lulu,
- apparently right,
- pompous,
- many-faceted,
- affected,
- Rhapsodical,
- flagrant,
- operatic,
- something else,
- high tech,
- Euphuistic,
- big-talking,
- high-falutin',
- overrefined,
- schoolish,
- nit-picking,
- campier,
- extravagant,
- solemn,
- over-nice,
- over-refined,
- precious,
- beaut,
- catchpenny,
- precieux,
- tinsel,
- stagy,
- glitzy,
- campiest,
- fustian,
- highfalutin',
- Inkhorn,
- donnish,
- ornate,
- glittery,
- campy,
- with all the options,
- flamboyant,
- putting on the ritz,
- loud,
- puffed-up,
- showy,
- overelaborate,
- genteel.
- more nit-picking,
- most nit picking,
- more hairsplitting,
- most donnish,
- most overnice,
- more donnish,
- more schoolish,
- overnice,
- doctrinaire,
- nit picking,
- over nice,
- more nit picking,
- most hairsplitting,
- more overnice,
- most schoolish,
- most nit-picking.
- more alembicated,
- most precieux,
- most alembicated,
- over refined,
- more overrefined,
- more precieux,
- most overrefined.
- forged,
- posing,
- facade,
- imposture,
- Impersonating,
- ersatz,
- imitation,
- deceitful,
- bogus,
- overambitious,
- too-too,
- fake,
- mock,
- fraudulent,
- Masquerading,
- synthetic.
- crowing,
- assured,
- sniffy,
- haughty,
- narcissistic,
- more dismissive,
- hoity-toity,
- smug,
- cocky,
- swellheaded,
- Preening,
- huffy,
- self-respecting,
- egoistic,
- highhanded,
- condescending,
- confident,
- self-glorying,
- dismissive,
- prideful,
- high-handed,
- high-and-mighty.
- most casuistic,
- un truest,
- more sophistical,
- un sounder,
- un-sounder,
- more casuistic,
- un sound,
- in correct,
- in accurate,
- un-truer,
- un-truest,
- most beguiling,
- un truer,
- most sophistical,
- un-soundest,
- un-sound.
- stuck up,
- hoitytoity,
- big headed,
- nose the air,
- more big headed,
- too big for britches,
- nose in the air,
- most big headed,
- too big for ones britches,
- most big-headed,
- nose air,
- more big-headed,
- nose in air,
- stuckup,
- hoity toity,
- big-headed,
- too big for one britches,
- too big for one's britches.
n.
• conspicuous (noun) • flaunty (noun) • in poor taste (noun) • ornamental (noun) • Other relevant words: (noun)v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
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- egotistic.
How to use "Ostentatious" in context?
There is no one-size-fits-all answer to whether something is ostentatious. In general, something is ostentatious if it demonstrates a lack of regard for propriety or if it shows a disregard for the common convention of decency. Some common markers of ostentatious behavior include displaying a lot of wealth or fancy clothing.
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