Synonyms for Pretentious:

• adj.

  •affected (adjective)
  • superficial,
  • faked,
  • artificial,
  • studied,
  • contrived,
  • self-conscious,
  • conceited,
  • schmaltzy,
  • stiff,
  • ham,
  • assumed,
  • shallow,
  • melodramatic,
  • false,
  • playacting,
  • Counterfeited,
  • pretentious,
  • unnatural,
  • Imitated,
  • gone hollywood,
  • overdone,
  • apish,
  • awkward,
  • simulated,
  • high falutin',
  • pretended,
  • theatrical,
  • pedantic.
  •ambitious (adjective)
  • elaborate,
  • exacting,
  • difficult,
  • impressive,
  • arduous,
  • challenging,
  • demanding,
  • severe,
  • industrious,
  • bold,
  • visionary,
  • strenuous,
  • formidable,
  • hard,
  • energetic.
  •arrogant (adjective)
  • haughty,
  • audacious,
  • high and mighty,
  • know-it-all,
  • insolent,
  • presumptuous,
  • aloof,
  • bragging,
  • overbearing,
  • imperious,
  • self-important,
  • lordly,
  • domineering,
  • peremptory,
  • snippy,
  • cocky,
  • scornful,
  • cavalier,
  • disdainful,
  • cheeky,
  • wise guy,
  • smug,
  • bossy,
  • stuck up,
  • smarty,
  • autocratic,
  • vain,
  • contemptuous,
  • swaggering,
  • supercilious,
  • high-handed.
  •arty (adjective)
  • illusory,
  • imitative,
  • popular,
  • pseudo,
  • Popularized,
  • ephemeral,
  • deceptive.
  •boastful (adjective)
  • self-aggrandizing,
  • smart alecky,
  • swollen-headed,
  • Vaunting,
  • smart-alecky,
  • on ego trip,
  • bombastic,
  • full of hot air,
  • swanky,
  • hot stuff,
  • self-applauding,
  • egotistical,
  • stuck-up,
  • self-praising,
  • exultant,
  • windbag,
  • too big for one's britches,
  • loudmouth,
  • fat-headed,
  • inflated,
  • crowing,
  • windy,
  • Strutting,
  • big-headed,
  • hifalutin.
  •counterfeit (adjective)
  • fictitious,
  • hollywood,
  • bent,
  • framed,
  • misleading,
  • queer,
  • fraudulent,
  • forged,
  • snide,
  • delusory,
  • delusive,
  • brummagem,
  • copied,
  • sham,
  • fishy,
  • crock,
  • imitation,
  • pirate,
  • wrong,
  • ersatz,
  • mock.
  •exaggerated (adjective)
  • fantastic,
  • sensational,
  • highly colored,
  • excessive,
  • caricatural,
  • farfetched,
  • abstract,
  • impossible,
  • too-too,
  • fabricated,
  • unrealistic,
  • steep,
  • fabulous,
  • out of proportion,
  • distorted,
  • tall,
  • spectacular,
  • bouncing,
  • magnified,
  • overestimated,
  • overkill,
  • hyperbolic,
  • Amplified,
  • preposterous,
  • over-wrought,
  • stylized,
  • overwrought,
  • histrionic,
  • embroidered,
  • a bit thick.
  •exalted (adjective)
  • highest,
  • top-drawer,
  • noble,
  • sublime,
  • august,
  • first,
  • magnificent,
  • prestigious,
  • outstanding,
  • astral,
  • high-ranking,
  • immodest,
  • elevated,
  • superb,
  • illustrious,
  • number one,
  • intellectual,
  • leading,
  • honorable,
  • high-minded,
  • ideal,
  • uplifting,
  • honored,
  • high,
  • eminent,
  • dignified.
  •extravagant (adjective)
  • more ridiculous,
  • ex-pensive,
  • un balanced,
  • most spendthrift,
  • over-priced,
  • ex pensive,
  • in-ordinate,
  • un conscionable,
  • more spendthrift,
  • un reasonable,
  • un-conscionable,
  • un-restrained,
  • ludicrous,
  • un-balanced,
  • un-reasonable,
  • more overpriced,
  • over priced,
  • most overpriced,
  • in ordinate.
  •fashionable (adjective)
  • stylish.
  •flamboyant (adjective)
  • gassiest,
  • most peacockish,
  • re splendent,
  • most swashbuckling,
  • re-splendent,
  • gassier,
  • more peacockish,
  • ex citing,
  • more swashbuckling.
  •flaunting (adjective)
  • Flaunting.
  •florid (adjective)
  • highflown,
  • figurative,
  • more embellished,
  • embellished,
  • more ornamented,
  • most euphuistic,
  • more euphuistic,
  • most ornamented,
  • most garnished,
  • more garnished,
  • high flown,
  • florid,
  • most embellished.
  •fustian (adjective)
  • portentous,
  • self-centered.
  •gaudy (adjective)
  • more froufrou,
  • frou frou,
  • more splendiferous,
  • most frou frou,
  • most splendiferous,
  • putting ritz,
  • screaming,
  • putting on ritz,
  • more screaming,
  • more catchpenny,
  • most pizzazz,
  • kitschy,
  • more pizzazz,
  • most screaming,
  • kitschier,
  • more tinsel,
  • putting the ritz,
  • more frou-frou,
  • most froufrou,
  • more frou frou,
  • tawdry,
  • most catchpenny,
  • most frou-frou,
  • most tinsel,
  • kitschiest.
  •genteel (adjective)
  • wellmannered,
  • well-bred,
  • distingue,
  • old-maidish.
  •grand (adjective)
  • fabber,
  • very good,
  • fabbest,
  • firstrate,
  • more dynamite,
  • most dynamite,
  • first rate,
  • un-real,
  • most smashing,
  • grandest,
  • aweinspiring,
  • awe inspiring,
  • more smashing.
  •grandiose (adjective)
  • over whelming,
  • high-falutin,
  • un fathomable,
  • over-whelming.
  •hoity-toity (adjective)
  • hoitytoity,
  • hoity toity,
  • most silliness,
  • more silliness.
  •imposing (adjective)
  • more mega,
  • most mega,
  • one for book,
  • something to write home about,
  • something write home about,
  • mindblowing,
  • mind blowing.
  •inflated (adjective)
  • most stretched,
  • sur-charged,
  • more surcharged,
  • more dropsical,
  • dis tended,
  • filled,
  • most aggrandized,
  • more stretched,
  • more dilated,
  • most dropsical,
  • sur charged,
  • more augmented,
  • most dilated,
  • most spread,
  • ex tended,
  • most surcharged,
  • dis-tended,
  • more spread,
  • ex-tended,
  • most augmented,
  • more rhapsodical,
  • most rhapsodical,
  • more aggrandized.
  •insincere (adjective)
  • un faithful,
  • un-truest,
  • perfidious,
  • most dissimulating,
  • dis-ingenuous,
  • in-sincerest,
  • dis simulating,
  • in-sincerer,
  • most dissembling,
  • doubledealing,
  • untruthful,
  • more dissembling,
  • hypo critical,
  • dis-simulating,
  • in sincerer,
  • un-truer,
  • in-sincere,
  • un truest,
  • un-faithful,
  • un truthful,
  • hypo-critical,
  • mendacious,
  • dis ingenuous,
  • more dissimulating,
  • un-truthful,
  • in sincerest,
  • un truer,
  • in sincere.
  •la-di-da (adjective)
  • la di da.
  •lofty (adjective)
  • lofty,
  • loftier.
  •luxurious (adjective)
  • more pampered,
  • most pleasureloving,
  • most pleasure-loving,
  • fit for a king- queen,
  • more pleasure-loving,
  • in the lap luxury,
  • self indulgent,
  • pleasure loving,
  • most pampered,
  • more pleasure loving,
  • pleasureloving,
  • wellappointed,
  • more pleasureloving,
  • in lap luxury,
  • in lap of luxury,
  • most upscale,
  • De Luxe,
  • selfindulgent,
  • most pleasure loving,
  • fit for king queen,
  • more luxurious,
  • up-scale,
  • fit for king- queen,
  • sybaritic,
  • well appointed,
  • fit for a king queen,
  • more upscale,
  • de-luxe,
  • up scale.
  •mala fide (adjective)
  • lefthanded,
  • mala fide,
  • left handed.
  •mannered (adjective)
  • artsiest,
  • more airish,
  • more highfaluting,
  • most airish,
  • most highfaluting,
  • artsier,
  • posed.
  •old-maidish (adjective)
  • oldmaidish,
  • prim and proper.
  •opulent (adjective)
  • more profusive,
  • up-holstered,
  • wellheeled,
  • frillier,
  • up holstered,
  • well-heeled,
  • well to do,
  • welloff,
  • frilliest,
  • more upholstered,
  • most upholstered,
  • well heeled,
  • well off,
  • most profusive,
  • co-pious,
  • co pious.
  •ornate (adjective)
  • highwrought,
  • most overelaborate,
  • over-elaborate,
  • more bedecked,
  • most jeweled,
  • more jeweled,
  • be decked,
  • more high-wrought,
  • most high wrought,
  • High-wrought,
  • more high wrought,
  • most high-wrought,
  • glitzier,
  • over elaborate,
  • glitziest,
  • more highwrought,
  • most bedecked,
  • glossy,
  • more overelaborate,
  • most highwrought,
  • be-decked,
  • high wrought.
  •ostentatious (adjective)
  • exhibitionistic,
  • uptown,
  • ostentatious,
  • peacocky,
  • glittery.
  •overblown (adjective)
  • hyped up.
  •overreaching (adjective)
  • vaulting.
  •patronizing (adjective)
  • more stooping,
  • most stooping.
  •precious (adjective)
  • more overrefined,
  • more overnice,
  • more precieux,
  • more alembicated,
  • most precieux,
  • most overrefined,
  • most overnice,
  • over refined,
  • over nice,
  • most alembicated,
  • overnice.
  •presumptuous (adjective)
  • selfsatisfied,
  • most overfamiliar,
  • pre sumptuous,
  • over-weening,
  • over-familiar,
  • self assertive,
  • overweening,
  • over weening,
  • selfassertive,
  • over familiar,
  • self satisfied,
  • more overfamiliar,
  • pre-sumptuous,
  • selfassured,
  • self assured,
  • over confident,
  • self-assertive.
  •pretentious (adjective)
  • forced,
  • puffed up,
  • swank,
  • Impersonating,
  • aureate,
  • fake,
  • stilted,
  • turgid,
  • tumid,
  • assuming,
  • flowery,
  • overambitious,
  • deceitful,
  • Masquerading,
  • mincing,
  • synthetic,
  • posing,
  • splashy,
  • imposture,
  • flashy,
  • magniloquent,
  • put-on,
  • jazzy,
  • feigned,
  • facade,
  • bogus.
  •prideful (adjective)
  • on one high horse,
  • on one's high horse,
  • on ones high horse.
  •proud (adjective)
  • dismissive,
  • high-and-mighty,
  • more dismissive,
  • self-respecting.
  •prudish (adjective)
  • up tight,
  • more overexact,
  • most simpering,
  • de mure,
  • most overmodest,
  • up-tight,
  • overmodest,
  • most overexact,
  • over modest,
  • more simpering,
  • over exact,
  • de-mure,
  • narrow minded,
  • over-exact,
  • narrowminded,
  • more overmodest,
  • overexact.
  •puffed-up (adjective)
  • puffedup.
  •quack (adjective)
  • dis honest,
  • un principled,
  • bummest,
  • un-principled,
  • dis-honest.
  •rhetorical (adjective)
  • silver tongued,
  • mouthy,
  • silvertongued.
  •self-respecting (adjective)
  • self respecting,
  • selfrespecting.
  •sententious (adjective)
  • epigrammatic,
  • moralistic.
  •shoddy (adjective)
  • dis-creditable,
  • not up snuff,
  • un-respectable,
  • dis-graceful,
  • not to snuff,
  • in-glorious,
  • brokendown,
  • dis-reputable,
  • more unrespectable,
  • not up to snuff,
  • dis-honorable,
  • most unrespectable,
  • dis graceful,
  • un respectable,
  • dis honorable,
  • in glorious,
  • junkiest,
  • junky,
  • junkier,
  • not snuff,
  • dis creditable,
  • dis reputable.
  •showy (adjective)
  • flasher,
  • flashest.
  •snobbish (adjective)
  • putting on airs,
  • high hat,
  • uppish,
  • high-hat.
  •snooty (adjective)
  • on high horse,
  • snootiest,
  • on a high horse.
  •snotty (adjective)
  • snobby,
  • la-de-da,
  • snobbiest,
  • highfalutin'.
  •specious (adjective)
  • un-sounder,
  • more casuistic,
  • un-sound,
  • un sound,
  • most casuistic,
  • un-soundest,
  • most sophistical,
  • in accurate,
  • in correct,
  • un sounder,
  • most beguiling,
  • more sophistical.
  •stuck-up (adjective)
  • stuckup,
  • nose in air,
  • nose in the air,
  • nose the air,
  • nose air.
  •stylish (adjective)
  • in the mainstream,
  • in fashion,
  • modernistic,
  • voguish,
  • dressed to kill,
  • dressed to the teeth.
  •superior (adjective)
  • wiseguy.
  •swank/swanky (adjective)
  • more withit,
  • most with it,
  • most with-it,
  • most withit,
  • withit,
  • more with-it,
  • more with it.
  •tasteless (adjective)
  • lowdown,
  • low-down,
  • low-down-and-dirty.
  •uppish (adjective)
  • more elitist,
  • most elitist.
  •uppity (adjective)
  • up pity,
  • high falutin,
  • up-pity.
  •utopian (adjective)
  • more pie in the sky,
  • more fantasy,
  • more pie-in-the-sky,
  • dreamest,
  • most ideological,
  • most pie-in-the-sky,
  • most fantasy,
  • un-feasible,
  • un feasible,
  • most idealist,
  • more ideological,
  • more idealist,
  • most pie in the sky.
  •vainglorious (adjective)
  • more boasting,
  • most boasting.
  •vaulting (adjective)
  • more opportunistic,
  • most opportunistic.
  •visionary (adjective)
  • in the clouds,
  • introspective,
  • in clouds.

• n.

  •
  • hollow.
  •
  • plain.
  •artsy-craftsy (noun)
  • artsy-craftsy.
  •arty-crafty (noun)
  • arty-crafty.
  •conspicuous (noun)
  • conspicuous.
  •flaunty (noun)
  • flaunty.
  •grandiloquent (noun)
  • grandiloquent.
  •grandiose (noun)
  • grandiose.
  •high-flown (noun)
  • high-flown.
  •high-flying (noun)
  • high-flying.
  •high-sounding (noun)
  • high-sounding.
  •highfalutin (noun)
  • highfalutin.
  •in a flash (noun)
  • flash.
  •in poor taste (noun)
  • in poor taste.
  •jumped-up (noun)
  • jumped-up.
  •kitsch (noun)
  • kitsch.
  •nouveau-riche (noun)
  • nouveau-riche.
  •parvenu (noun)
  • parvenu.
  •parvenue (noun)
  • parvenue.
  •phoniness (noun)
  • disingenuou,
  • backhandeds,
  • deceptives,
  • falses,
  • untruthfuls,
  • faithlesses,
  • un-trues,
  • two-faceds,
  • duplicitou,
  • un trues,
  • dissemblings,
  • deviou,
  • pretentiou,
  • un-faithfuls,
  • shifties,
  • un faithfuls,
  • two faceds,
  • dis-ingenuousness,
  • evasives,
  • deceitfuls,
  • snides,
  • dissimulatings,
  • dis ingenuousnesses,
  • unfaithfuls,
  • mendaciou,
  • dis ingenuousness,
  • ambidextrou,
  • twofaceds,
  • perfidiou,
  • hypocriticals,
  • lyings,
  • dis-ingenuousnesses,
  • untrues.
  •pretentious (noun)
  • sesquipedalian,
  • upstart.

• v.

  •deceiving (verb)
  • hypocritical.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • disingenuous,
  • insincere,
  • charming,
  • phony,
  • strained,
  • soapy,
  • hail-fellow-well-met,
  • fey,
  • sugary,
  • unctuous,
  • pat,
  • two-faced,
  • spurious,
  • vulgar.
  •
  • poor,
  • sleek,
  • egotistic,
  • slick,
  • puffy.
  •gaudy
  • meretricious.
  •genuine
  • unaffected.
  •nouveau-riche
  • Nouveau riche.
  •overnice
  • prudish.
  •sham
  • shoddy.

Paraphrases for Pretentious:

• Equivalence

  • Verb, past participle
    conceited.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    stuck-up, thoughtless, arty, grandiose, cocky, presumptuous, conceited, ostentatious.

Antonyms for Pretentious:

• adj.

  • affected
    unhurt, uninjured, unchanged, ok, unimpaired.
  • all
    unpretentious.
  • ambitious
    easy, facile.
  • arrogant
    meek, servile.
  • big
    shy, unconfident.
  • boastful
    deprecating.
  • counterfeit
    real, genuine, true.
  • exaggerated
    understated, unembellished, Depreciated, unexaggerated, played down, reduced, minimized.
  • exalted
    debased, Denounced, condemned, criticized, humiliated.
  • pretentious
    modest, humble, unconceited.
  • Other antonyms:
    introverted, yielding, overmodest, reserved, submissive, unassertive, acquiescent, unaggressive, mousy, deferential, shrinking, compliant, lowly, subdued, cowering, passive, unobtrusive, homely, sheepish, diffident, bashful, quiet, retiring, timid, cringing.