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Synonyms & Antonyms of fancy-pants
as in pretentious, pompous
Synonyms & Near Synonyms for fancy-pants
- aureate,
- florid,
- flowery,
- grandiloquent,
- highfalutin
- (also hifalutin),
- high-flown,
- high-sounding,
- magnific,
- ornate,
- purple,
- rhetorical
- (also rhetoric)
Antonyms & Near Antonyms for fancy-pants
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“Fancy-pants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fancy-pants. Accessed 4 Jul. 2022.
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The first known use of fancy-pants was in 1939
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