ostentatious as an adjective: - 1
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ostentatious
adjective
1 ostentatious
Intended to attract notice and impress others:
— An ostentatious sable coat.
synonym: pretentious.
Roget 880:
vain,
vain as a peacock,
proud as a peacock;
conceited,
overweening,
pert,
forward;
vainglorious,
high-flown;
ostentatious
etc.
882;
puffed up,
inflated,
flushed.
self-satisfied,
self-confident,
self-sufficient,
self-flattering,
self-admiring,
self-applauding,
self-glorious,
self-opinionated;
entente
etc.
(wrongheaded)
481;
wise in one's own conceit,
pragmatical†,
overwise†,
pretentious,
priggish;
egotistic,
egotistical;
soi-disant
etc.
(boastful)
884 [Fr.];
arrogant
etc.
885.
unabashed,
unblushing;
unconstrained,
unceremonious;
free and easy.
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Roget 882:
ostentatious,
showy,
dashing,
pretentious;
janty†,
jaunty;
grand,
pompous,
palatial;
high-sounding;
turgid
etc.
(big-sounding)
577;
gairish†,
garish;
gaudy,
gaudy as a peacock,
gaudy as a butterfly,
gaudy as a tulip;
flaunting,
flashing,
flaming,
glittering;
gay
etc.
(ornate)
847.
splendid,
magnificent,
sumptuous.
theatrical,
dramatic,
spectacular;
ceremonial,
ritual.
solemn,
stately,
majestic,
formal,
stiff,
ceremonious,
punctilious,
starched.
dressed to kill,
dressed to the nines,
decjed out,
all decked out,
en granite tenue [Fr.],
in best bib and tucker,
in Sunday best,
endimanch_e,
chic.
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Polish: ostentacyjny
2 ostentatious
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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