What is another word for pretentious?
822 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ pɹɪtˈɛnʃəs], [ pɹɪtˈɛnʃəs], [ p_ɹ_ɪ_t_ˈɛ_n_ʃ_ə_s]Table of Contents
Similar words for pretentious:
- affected (adjective)
- ambitious (adjective)
- arrogant (adjective)
- arty (adjective)
- boastful (adjective)
- counterfeit (adjective)
- exaggerated (adjective)
- exalted (adjective)
- extravagant (adjective)
- fashionable (adjective)
- flamboyant (adjective)
- flaunting (adjective)
- florid (adjective)
- fustian (adjective)
- gaudy (adjective)
- genteel (adjective)
- grand (adjective)
- grandiose (adjective)
- hoity-toity (adjective)
- imposing (adjective)
- inflated (adjective)
- insincere (adjective)
- la-di-da (adjective)
- lofty (adjective)
- luxurious (adjective)
- mala fide (adjective)
- mannered (adjective)
- old-maidish (adjective)
- opulent (adjective)
- ornate (adjective)
- ostentatious (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- overblown (adjective)
- overreaching (adjective)
- patronizing (adjective)
- precious (adjective)
- presumptuous (adjective)
- pretentious (adjective)
- prideful (adjective)
- proud (adjective)
- prudish (adjective)
- puffed-up (adjective)
- quack (adjective)
- rhetorical (adjective)
- self-respecting (adjective)
- sententious (adjective)
- shoddy (adjective)
- showy (adjective)
- snobbish (adjective)
- snooty (adjective)
- snotty (adjective)
- specious (adjective)
- stuck-up (adjective)
- stylish (adjective)
- superior (adjective)
- swank/swanky (adjective)
- tasteless (adjective)
- uppish (adjective)
- uppity (adjective)
- utopian (adjective)
- vainglorious (adjective)
- vaulting (adjective)
- visionary (adjective)
- artsy-craftsy (noun)
- arty-crafty (noun)
- conspicuous (noun)
- flaunty (noun)
- grandiloquent (noun)
- grandiose (noun)
- high-flown (noun)
- high-flying (noun)
- high-sounding (noun)
- highfalutin (noun)
- in a flash (noun)
- in poor taste (noun)
- jumped-up (noun)
- kitsch (noun)
- nouveau-riche (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- parvenu (noun)
- parvenue (noun)
- phoniness (noun)
- pretentious (noun)
- deceiving (verb)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- gaudy
- genuine
- nouveau-riche
- overnice
- sham
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.
- elaborate,
- exacting,
- difficult,
- impressive,
- arduous,
- challenging,
- demanding,
- severe,
- industrious,
- bold,
- visionary,
- strenuous,
- formidable,
- hard,
- energetic.
- 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.
- 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.
- fictitious,
- hollywood,
- bent,
- framed,
- misleading,
- queer,
- fraudulent,
- forged,
- snide,
- delusory,
- delusive,
- brummagem,
- copied,
- sham,
- fishy,
- crock,
- imitation,
- pirate,
- wrong,
- ersatz,
- mock.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- gassiest,
- most peacockish,
- re splendent,
- most swashbuckling,
- re-splendent,
- gassier,
- more peacockish,
- ex citing,
- more swashbuckling.
- highflown,
- figurative,
- more embellished,
- embellished,
- more ornamented,
- most euphuistic,
- more euphuistic,
- most ornamented,
- most garnished,
- more garnished,
- high flown,
- florid,
- most embellished.
- 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.
- fabber,
- very good,
- fabbest,
- firstrate,
- more dynamite,
- most dynamite,
- first rate,
- un-real,
- most smashing,
- grandest,
- aweinspiring,
- awe inspiring,
- more smashing.
- more mega,
- most mega,
- one for book,
- something to write home about,
- something write home about,
- mindblowing,
- mind blowing.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- pompous,
- unrespectable,
- fab,
- overfamiliar,
- dropsical,
- opulent,
- on an ego trip,
- Rhapsodical,
- first class,
- sophistical,
- snobbish,
- delusional,
- not genuine,
- extravagant,
- gaudy,
- opportunistic,
- with-it,
- one for the book,
- over-nice,
- alembicated,
- sententious,
- la-di-da,
- rhetorical,
- Froufrou,
- precieux,
- flamboyant,
- ideological,
- chichi,
- grand,
- catchpenny,
- pumped up,
- Crocker,
- apparently right,
- sniffy,
- arrogant,
- in the lap of luxury,
- supposititious,
- prideful,
- precious,
- superior,
- Mega,
- boastful,
- Magnific,
- highest-ranking,
- over-modest,
- something else,
- snotty,
- luxurious,
- tinsel,
- campiest,
- snooty,
- highfaluting,
- splendiferous,
- coldshoulder,
- frilly,
- exalted,
- artsy,
- pontifical,
- over-confident,
- not kosher,
- stagy,
- arty,
- exaggerated,
- Double dealing,
- top-ranking,
- Profusive,
- frou-frou,
- hoity-toity,
- utopian,
- pie-in-the-sky,
- campier,
- big,
- proud,
- specious,
- puffed-up,
- glitzy,
- biggety,
- uppity,
- Surcharged,
- imposing,
- mannered,
- Euphuistic,
- suppositious,
- over-refined,
- schlocky,
- top drawer,
- overelaborate,
- firstclass,
- gussied up,
- soft shell,
- upscale,
- gassy,
- hammy,
- broken down,
- casuistic,
- stagier,
- jeweled,
- peacockish,
- stagiest,
- ornate,
- cold-shoulder,
- showy,
- overblown,
- overrefined,
- affected,
- overpriced,
- out-standing,
- genteel,
- campy,
- quack,
- ambitious,
- high-falutin',
- airish,
- putting on the ritz,
- splurgy,
- fustian,
- won't fly,
- tasteless,
- patronizing,
- vainglorious,
- swashbuckling,
- highhanded,
- pleasure-loving,
- plushy.
- more overrefined,
- more overnice,
- more precieux,
- more alembicated,
- most precieux,
- most overrefined,
- most overnice,
- over refined,
- over nice,
- most alembicated,
- overnice.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- un-sounder,
- more casuistic,
- un-sound,
- un sound,
- most casuistic,
- un-soundest,
- most sophistical,
- in accurate,
- in correct,
- un sounder,
- most beguiling,
- more sophistical.
n.
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•
- hollow.
-
•
- plain.
- 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.
v.
• deceiving (verb) • Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
• gaudy • genuine • nouveau-riche • overnice • sham
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Verb, past participle
conceited.
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Verb, past participle
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Adjective
arty, conceited, grandiose, ostentatious, presumptuous, stuck-up, thoughtless, cocky.
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