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pretentious
Synonyms and Antonyms of pretentious
- That pretentious couple always serves caviar at their parties, even though they themselves dislike it.
affected, grandiose, highfalutin (also hifalutin), high-minded, la-di-da, ostentatious, pompous, 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
- a pretentious author whose books only appeal to equally pretentious readers
arrogant, bumptious, cavalier, chesty, haughty, high-and-mighty, high-handed, high-hat, highfalutin (also hifalutin), huffish, huffy, imperious, important, lofty, lordly, masterful, overweening, peremptory, pompous, presuming, presumptuous, self-asserting, self-assertive, sniffy, supercilious, superior, uppish, uppity
authoritarian, bossy, dominant, dominating, domineering, magisterial, pontifical, pontificating
condescending, disdainful, patronizing
blusterous, blustery, boastful, bombastic, braggart, bragging, braggy, cocky, swaggering, vain, vainglorious
complacent, conceited, egocentric, egoistic (also egoistical), egotistic (or egotistical), narcissistic, prideful, proud, self-affected, self-applauding, self-centered, self-complacent, self-conceited, self-pleased, self-satisfied, smug, stuck-up
self-flattering, self-loving, self-promoting
brash, forward, uninhibited, unreserved
extroverted (also extraverted), immodest
Synonym Discussion of pretentious
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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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