pretentious 的定义
- characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
- making an exaggerated outward show; ostentatious.
- full of pretense or pretension; having no factual basis; false.
pretentious 近义词
snobbish, conceited
pretentious 的近义词 48 个
- arty
- exaggerated
- grandiose
- hollow
- overblown
- pompous
- showy
- stilted
- turgid
- ostentatious
- affected
- assuming
- aureate
- big
- bombastic
- chichi
- conspicuous
- euphuistic
- extravagant
- feigned
- flamboyant
- flashy
- flaunting
- flowery
- gaudy
- grandiloquent
- high-flown
- high-sounding
- highfaluting
- imposing
- inflated
- jazzy
- la-di-da
- lofty
- magniloquent
- mincing
- ornate
- overambitious
- puffed up
- put-on
- rhetorical
- specious
- splashy
- swank
- too-too
- tumid
- utopian
- vainglorious
pretentious 的反义词 7 个
更多pretentious例句
- Despite his pretentious cynicism and disdain for his superficial classmates, Cameron is immediately dazzled on day two of the bet by Padgett’s karaoke performance of “Teenage Dream.”
- A 25-minute-long video from August last year promised the “Lifepaths” feature, a pretentious name for what ended up becoming 15-minute introductions that barely changed the game’s story in any meaningful way.
- Svein: To be very big on things, bordering on the pretentious, I see it as all of those things.
- I have never felt that displaying these things was right, as her grandson it felt a little - if not a lot - pretentious.
- Actually, my standard was less pretentious: Is it good for the Jews?
- The comingling of the art and pop music worlds is pointless and pretentious.
- It was becoming increasingly elitist, pretentious, and exclusive.
- In the centre was a log-house, larger and more pretentious than many log-houses which he had seen in the South.
- The little inn was cleanlier and better kept than many of the more pretentious ones.
- With costers and bargemen one can always get on familiarly: it is the pretentious, vulgar men and females who are horrible.
- An affected and pretentious woman is all deportment and words; a sensible woman shows her sense by her behaviour.
- Thus an imitation of sagacity becomes pretentious affectation.