What is another word for pretentious?
Pronunciation:
[ pɹɪtˈɛnʃəs], [ pɹɪtˈɛnʃəs], [ p_ɹ_ɪ_t_ˈɛ_n_ʃ_ə_s]
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Similar words for pretentious:
- boastful (adjective)
- exaggerated (adjective)
- fashionable (adjective)
- genteel (adjective)
- old-maidish (adjective)
- ostentatious (adjective)
- overblown (adjective)
- overreaching (adjective)
- plush (adjective)
- pretentious (adjective)
- prideful (adjective)
- proud (adjective)
- self-confident (adjective)
- sententious (adjective)
- snobbish (adjective)
- snooty (adjective)
- snotty (adjective)
- stuck-up (adjective)
- stylish (adjective)
- superior (adjective)
- tasteless (adjective)
- uppity (adjective)
- visionary (adjective)
- affected (adjective)
- ambitious (adjective)
- arrogant (adjective)
- arty (adjective)
- counterfeit (adjective)
- exalted (adjective)
- extravagant (adjective)
- flamboyant (adjective)
- florid (adjective)
- fustian (adjective)
- gaudy (adjective)
- grand (adjective)
- grandiose (adjective)
- highfalutin (adjective)
- hoity-toity (adjective)
- imposing (adjective)
- inflated (adjective)
- insincere (adjective)
- la-di-da (adjective)
- lofty (adjective)
- luxurious (adjective)
- mala fide (adjective)
- mannered (adjective)
- opulent (adjective)
- ornate (adjective)
- patronizing (adjective)
- precious (adjective)
- presumptuous (adjective)
- prudish (adjective)
- puffed-up (adjective)
- quack (adjective)
- rhetorical (adjective)
- self-respecting (adjective)
- shoddy (adjective)
- showy (adjective)
- specious (adjective)
- swank/swanky (adjective)
- uppish (adjective)
- utopian (adjective)
- vainglorious (adjective)
- vaulting (adjective)
- artsy-craftsy (noun)
- arty-crafty (noun)
- flaunty (noun)
- high-flying (noun)
- in a flash (noun)
- in poor taste (noun)
- jumped-up (noun)
- kitsch (noun)
- nouveau-riche (noun)
- parvenu (noun)
- parvenue (noun)
- phoniness (noun)
- pretentious (noun)
- deceiving (verb)
- challenging
- gaudy
- genuine
- nouveau-riche
- overnice
- pompous
- sham
- tawdry
- unprincipled
- other relevant words (adjective)
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Pretentious:
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adj.
• boastful- big-headed ,
- bombastic ,
- bragging ,
- conceited ,
- fat-headed ,
- full of hot air ,
- haughty ,
- hifalutin ,
- hot stuff ,
- inflated ,
- loudmouth ,
- on ego trip ,
- self-aggrandizing ,
- self-applauding ,
- self-important ,
- self-praising ,
- smart alecky ,
- too big for one's britches ,
- vain ,
- windy ,
- Strutting ,
- Vaunting ,
- crowing ,
- egotistical ,
- exultant ,
- smart-alecky ,
- swollen-headed ,
- windbag .
- caricatural ,
- hyperbolic ,
- out of proportion ,
- over-wrought ,
- overestimated ,
- overkill ,
- too-too ,
- Amplified ,
- a bit thick ,
- abstract ,
- bouncing ,
- distorted ,
- embroidered ,
- excessive ,
- fabricated ,
- fabulous ,
- fantastic ,
- farfetched ,
- highly colored ,
- impossible ,
- magnified ,
- overwrought ,
- preposterous ,
- sensational ,
- spectacular ,
- steep ,
- stylized ,
- tall ,
- unrealistic .
- Impersonating ,
- Masquerading ,
- artificial ,
- bogus ,
- deceitful ,
- ersatz ,
- facade ,
- fake ,
- false ,
- forced ,
- forged ,
- fraudulent ,
- histrionic ,
- imitation ,
- imposture ,
- mock ,
- ostentatious ,
- overdone ,
- posing ,
- stiff ,
- stilted ,
- studied ,
- synthetic ,
- theatrical ,
- unnatural ,
- assuming ,
- aureate ,
- conspicuous ,
- feigned ,
- flashy ,
- flowery ,
- grandiloquent ,
- high-flown ,
- high-sounding ,
- hollow ,
- jazzy ,
- magniloquent ,
- mincing ,
- overambitious ,
- puffed up ,
- put-on ,
- splashy ,
- swank ,
- tumid ,
- turgid .
- Counterfeited ,
- Imitated ,
- apish ,
- assumed ,
- awkward ,
- contrived ,
- faked ,
- gone hollywood ,
- ham ,
- high falutin' ,
- melodramatic ,
- pedantic ,
- playacting ,
- pretended ,
- pretentious ,
- schmaltzy ,
- self-conscious ,
- shallow ,
- simulated ,
- superficial .
- arduous ,
- bold ,
- challenging ,
- demanding ,
- difficult ,
- elaborate ,
- energetic ,
- exacting ,
- formidable ,
- hard ,
- impressive ,
- industrious ,
- severe ,
- strenuous ,
- visionary .
- aloof ,
- audacious ,
- autocratic ,
- bossy ,
- cavalier ,
- cheeky ,
- cocky ,
- contemptuous ,
- disdainful ,
- domineering ,
- high and mighty ,
- high-handed ,
- imperious ,
- insolent ,
- know-it-all ,
- lordly ,
- overbearing ,
- peremptory ,
- scornful ,
- smarty ,
- smug ,
- snippy ,
- supercilious ,
- swaggering ,
- wise guy .
- bent ,
- brummagem ,
- copied ,
- crock ,
- delusive ,
- delusory ,
- fictitious ,
- fishy ,
- framed ,
- hollywood ,
- misleading ,
- pirate ,
- queer ,
- sham ,
- snide ,
- wrong .
- astral ,
- august ,
- dignified ,
- elevated ,
- eminent ,
- first ,
- high ,
- high-minded ,
- high-ranking ,
- highest ,
- honorable ,
- honored ,
- ideal ,
- illustrious ,
- immodest ,
- intellectual ,
- leading ,
- magnificent ,
- noble ,
- number one ,
- outstanding ,
- prestigious ,
- sublime ,
- superb ,
- top-drawer ,
- uplifting .
- ex pensive ,
- ex-pensive ,
- in ordinate ,
- in-ordinate ,
- ludicrous ,
- more overpriced ,
- more ridiculous ,
- more spendthrift ,
- most overpriced ,
- most spendthrift ,
- over priced ,
- over-priced ,
- un balanced ,
- un conscionable ,
- un reasonable ,
- un-balanced ,
- un-conscionable ,
- un-reasonable ,
- un-restrained .
- ex citing ,
- gassier ,
- gassiest ,
- more peacockish ,
- more swashbuckling ,
- most peacockish ,
- most swashbuckling ,
- re splendent ,
- re-splendent .
- embellished ,
- figurative ,
- florid ,
- high flown ,
- highflown ,
- more embellished ,
- more euphuistic ,
- more garnished ,
- more ornamented ,
- most embellished ,
- most euphuistic ,
- most garnished ,
- most ornamented .
- frou frou ,
- kitschier ,
- kitschiest ,
- kitschy ,
- more catchpenny ,
- more frou frou ,
- more frou-frou ,
- more froufrou ,
- more pizzazz ,
- more screaming ,
- more splendiferous ,
- more tinsel ,
- most catchpenny ,
- most frou frou ,
- most frou-frou ,
- most froufrou ,
- most pizzazz ,
- most screaming ,
- most splendiferous ,
- most tinsel ,
- putting on ritz ,
- putting ritz ,
- putting the ritz ,
- screaming ,
- tawdry .
- awe inspiring ,
- aweinspiring ,
- fabber ,
- fabbest ,
- first rate ,
- firstrate ,
- grandest ,
- more dynamite ,
- more smashing ,
- most dynamite ,
- most smashing ,
- un-real ,
- very good .
- mind blowing ,
- mindblowing ,
- more mega ,
- most mega ,
- one for book ,
- something to write home about ,
- something write home about .
- dis tended ,
- dis-tended ,
- ex tended ,
- ex-tended ,
- filled ,
- more aggrandized ,
- more augmented ,
- more dilated ,
- more dropsical ,
- more rhapsodical ,
- more spread ,
- more stretched ,
- more surcharged ,
- most aggrandized ,
- most augmented ,
- most dilated ,
- most dropsical ,
- most rhapsodical ,
- most spread ,
- most stretched ,
- most surcharged ,
- sur charged ,
- sur-charged .
- dis ingenuous ,
- dis simulating ,
- dis-ingenuous ,
- dis-simulating ,
- doubledealing ,
- hypo critical ,
- hypo-critical ,
- in sincere ,
- in sincerer ,
- in sincerest ,
- in-sincere ,
- in-sincerer ,
- in-sincerest ,
- mendacious ,
- more dissembling ,
- more dissimulating ,
- most dissembling ,
- most dissimulating ,
- perfidious ,
- un faithful ,
- un truer ,
- un truest ,
- un truthful ,
- un-faithful ,
- un-truer ,
- un-truest ,
- un-truthful ,
- untruthful .
- De Luxe ,
- de-luxe ,
- fit for a king queen ,
- fit for a king- queen ,
- fit for king queen ,
- fit for king- queen ,
- in lap luxury ,
- in lap of luxury ,
- in the lap luxury ,
- more luxurious ,
- more pampered ,
- more pleasure loving ,
- more pleasure-loving ,
- more pleasureloving ,
- more upscale ,
- most pampered ,
- most pleasure loving ,
- most pleasure-loving ,
- most pleasureloving ,
- most upscale ,
- pleasure loving ,
- pleasureloving ,
- self indulgent ,
- selfindulgent ,
- sybaritic ,
- up scale ,
- up-scale ,
- well appointed ,
- wellappointed .
- co pious ,
- co-pious ,
- frillier ,
- frilliest ,
- more profusive ,
- more upholstered ,
- most profusive ,
- most upholstered ,
- up holstered ,
- up-holstered ,
- well heeled ,
- well off ,
- well to do ,
- well-heeled ,
- wellheeled ,
- welloff .
- High-wrought ,
- be decked ,
- be-decked ,
- glitzier ,
- glitziest ,
- glossy ,
- high wrought ,
- highwrought ,
- more bedecked ,
- more high wrought ,
- more high-wrought ,
- more highwrought ,
- more jeweled ,
- more overelaborate ,
- most bedecked ,
- most high wrought ,
- most high-wrought ,
- most highwrought ,
- most jeweled ,
- most overelaborate ,
- over elaborate ,
- over-elaborate .
- more alembicated ,
- more overnice ,
- more overrefined ,
- more precieux ,
- most alembicated ,
- most overnice ,
- most overrefined ,
- most precieux ,
- over nice ,
- over refined ,
- overnice .
- more overfamiliar ,
- most overfamiliar ,
- over confident ,
- over familiar ,
- over weening ,
- over-familiar ,
- over-weening ,
- overweening ,
- pre sumptuous ,
- pre-sumptuous ,
- self assertive ,
- self assured ,
- self satisfied ,
- self-assertive ,
- selfassertive ,
- selfassured ,
- selfsatisfied .
- de mure ,
- de-mure ,
- more overexact ,
- more overmodest ,
- more simpering ,
- most overexact ,
- most overmodest ,
- most simpering ,
- narrow minded ,
- narrowminded ,
- over exact ,
- over modest ,
- over-exact ,
- overexact ,
- overmodest ,
- up tight ,
- up-tight .
- brokendown ,
- dis creditable ,
- dis graceful ,
- dis honorable ,
- dis reputable ,
- dis-creditable ,
- dis-graceful ,
- dis-honorable ,
- dis-reputable ,
- in glorious ,
- in-glorious ,
- junkier ,
- junkiest ,
- junky ,
- more unrespectable ,
- most unrespectable ,
- not snuff ,
- not to snuff ,
- not up snuff ,
- not up to snuff ,
- un respectable ,
- un-respectable .
- in accurate ,
- in correct ,
- more casuistic ,
- more sophistical ,
- most beguiling ,
- most casuistic ,
- most sophistical ,
- un sound ,
- un sounder ,
- un-sound ,
- un-sounder ,
- un-soundest .
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- plain .
- ambidextrou ,
- backhandeds ,
- deceitfuls ,
- deceptives ,
- deviou ,
- dis ingenuousness ,
- dis ingenuousnesses ,
- dis-ingenuousness ,
- dis-ingenuousnesses ,
- disingenuou ,
- dissemblings ,
- dissimulatings ,
- duplicitou ,
- evasives ,
- faithlesses ,
- falses ,
- hypocriticals ,
- lyings ,
- mendaciou ,
- perfidiou ,
- pretentiou ,
- shifties ,
- snides ,
- two faceds ,
- two-faceds ,
- twofaceds ,
- un faithfuls ,
- un trues ,
- un-faithfuls ,
- un-trues ,
- unfaithfuls ,
- untrues ,
- untruthfuls .
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v.
• deceiving Other synonyms:
- charming ,
- disingenuous ,
- exaggerated ,
- fey ,
- hail-fellow-well-met ,
- insincere ,
- ornate ,
- pat ,
- phony ,
- puffed-up ,
- soapy ,
- splurgy ,
- spurious ,
- strained ,
- sugary ,
- two-faced ,
- unctuous ,
- vulgar .
- flamboyant .
Other relevant words:
- Crocker ,
- Double dealing ,
- Euphuistic ,
- Froufrou ,
- Magnific ,
- Mega ,
- Profusive ,
- Rhapsodical ,
- Surcharged ,
- affected ,
- airish ,
- alembicated ,
- apparently right ,
- arrogant ,
- artsy ,
- arty ,
- biggety ,
- boastful ,
- broken down ,
- campier ,
- campiest ,
- campy ,
- casuistic ,
- catchpenny ,
- chichi ,
- cold-shoulder ,
- coldshoulder ,
- counterfeit ,
- delusional ,
- dropsical ,
- exalted ,
- extravagant ,
- fab ,
- first class ,
- firstclass ,
- frilly ,
- frou-frou ,
- fustian ,
- gassy ,
- gaudy ,
- glitzy ,
- grand ,
- gussied up ,
- hammy ,
- high-falutin' ,
- highest-ranking ,
- highfaluting ,
- highhanded ,
- hoity-toity ,
- ideological ,
- imposing ,
- in the lap of luxury ,
- jeweled ,
- la-di-da ,
- luxurious ,
- mannered ,
- not genuine ,
- not kosher ,
- on an ego trip ,
- one for the book ,
- opportunistic ,
- opulent ,
- out-standing ,
- over-confident ,
- over-modest ,
- over-nice ,
- over-refined ,
- overblown ,
- overelaborate ,
- overfamiliar ,
- overpriced ,
- overrefined ,
- patronizing ,
- peacockish ,
- pie-in-the-sky ,
- pleasure-loving ,
- plushy ,
- pontifical ,
- precieux ,
- precious ,
- prideful ,
- proud ,
- pumped up ,
- putting on the ritz ,
- rhetorical ,
- schlocky ,
- sententious ,
- showy ,
- sniffy ,
- snobbish ,
- snooty ,
- snotty ,
- soft shell ,
- something else ,
- sophistical ,
- specious ,
- splendiferous ,
- stagier ,
- stagiest ,
- stagy ,
- superior ,
- suppositious ,
- supposititious ,
- swashbuckling ,
- tasteless ,
- top drawer ,
- top-ranking ,
- unrespectable ,
- uppity ,
- upscale ,
- utopian ,
- vainglorious ,
- with-it ,
- won't fly .
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How to use "Pretentious" in context?
Pretentiousness has been defined as an excessive and artificial high opinion of oneself. When applied to individuals, it can refer to a tendency to be overly obsessed with one's own appearance, accomplishments, or mannerisms. In some cases, pretentiousness may be a sign of insecurity or a disruptive behavior pattern.
There is no one-size-fits-all definition of pretentiousness, but some common signs include excessively high standards, a need for admiration, a strong sense of self-importance, and a focus on looks and luxury over substance.
Paraphrases for Pretentious:
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Equivalence
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Verb, past participle
conceited.
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Verb, past participle
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Other Related
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Adjective
arty, conceited, grandiose, ostentatious, presumptuous, stuck-up, thoughtless, cocky.
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Adjective
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