ostentatious
3 definitions found
ostentatious - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Ostentatious \Os`ten*ta"tious\, a.
Fond of, or evincing, ostentation; unduly conspicuous;
pretentious; boastful.
[1913 Webster]
Far from being ostentatious of the good you do.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
The ostentatious professions of many years. --Macaulay.
[1913 Webster] -- Os`ten*ta"tious*ly, adv. --
Os`ten*ta"tious*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
ostentatious - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
ostentatious
adj 1: intended to attract notice and impress others; "an
ostentatious sable coat" [syn: ostentatious,
pretentious] [ant: unostentatious, unpretending,
unpretentious]
2: (of a display) tawdry or vulgar [syn: ostentatious,
pretentious]
ostentatious - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
90 Moby Thesaurus words for "ostentatious":
Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, ambitious, arabesque, baroque,
bedizened, big-sounding, boastful, braggart, busy, chichi, classy,
convoluted, declamatory, elaborate, elegant, elevated, euphuistic,
fancy, fine, flamboyant, flaming, flash, flashy, flaunting, florid,
flossy, flowery, frilly, fulsome, fussy, garish, gaudy,
grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown,
high-flying, high-sounding, high-toned, high-wrought, highfalutin,
highfaluting, inkhorn, labored, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty,
lurid, luxuriant, luxurious, magniloquent, meretricious, moresque,
ornate, orotund, overdone, overelaborate, overelegant,
overinvolved, overlabored, overworked, overwrought, peacockish,
peacocky, pedantic, picturesque, pompous, pretentious,
pretty-pretty, rhetorical, rich, rococo, sensational,
sensationalistic, sententious, showy, sonorous, splashy, stilted,
swank, tall, theatrical, tony, tortuous, vain, vainglorious,
vaunting
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