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ostentatious
Synonyms and Antonyms of ostentatious
- wears an ostentatious diamond ring on his little finger
- an ostentatious man who desperately wants to impress people with his newly acquired wealth
affected, grandiose, high-minded, highfalutin (also hifalutin), la-di-da, pompous, pretentious, snippy
airy, grandiloquent, high-flown, high-sounding, high-toned
arrogant, bumptious, complacent, conceited, egoistic (also egoistical), egotistic (or egotistical), high-and-mighty, high-handed, high-hat, hoity-toity, imperious, important, overweening, presumptuous, prideful, proud, self-centered, self-complacent, self-conceited, self-important, self-obsessed, self-pleased, self-satisfied, smug, uppity, vain, vainglorious
self-aggrandizing, self-dramatizing, self-glorifying, self-promoting
cavalier, disdainful, haughty, lordly, snobbish, snobby, stuck-up, supercilious, superior
flamboyant, flashy, flaunting, garish, gaudy, glitzy, showy, splashy
demure, down-to-earth, homely, humble, lowly, meek, retiring, unassertive, unassuming
bashful, diffident, mousy (or mousey), overmodest, passive, quiet, reserved, shy, timid
Synonym Discussion of ostentatious
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- the performers' showy costumes
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- a pretentious parade of hard words
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- the ostentatious summer homes of the rich
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