ostentation

Roget category 882

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.2. Personal affections
›› 6.2.5. Extrinsic affections

#882. Ostentation

noun

ostentation, display, show, flourish, parade, etalage [Fr.], pomp, array, state, solemnity — dash, splash, splurge, glitter, strut, pomposity — pretense, pretensions — showing off — fuss.
magnificence, splendor — coup d'oeil [Fr.] — grand doings.
coup de theatre — stage effect, stage trick — claptrap — mise en scene [Fr.] — tour de force — chic.
demonstration, flying colors — tomfoolery — flourish of trumpets etc. (celebration) 883 — pageant, pageantry — spectacle, exhibition, exposition, procession — turn out, set out — grand function — f=ete, gala, field day, review, march past, promenade, insubstantial pageant.
dress — court dress, full dress, evening dress, ball dress, fancy dress — tailoring, millinery, man millinery, frippery, foppery, equipage.
ceremony, ceremonial — ritual — form, formality — etiquette — puncto [Lat.], punctilio, punctiliousness — starched stateliness, stateliness.
mummery, solemn mockery, mouth honor.
attitudinarian^† — fop etc. 854.

verb

be ostentatious etc. adj. — come forward, put oneself forward — attract attention, star it.
cut a figure, make a dash, make a splash, make a splurge, cut a dash, cut a splash, cut a splurge — figure, figure away — make a show, make a display — glitter.
show off, show off one's paces — parade, march past — display, exhibit, put forward, hold up — trot out, hand out — sport, brandish, blazon forth — dangle, dangle before the eyes.
cry up etc. (praise) 931 — proner [Fr.], flaunt, emblazon, prink^†, set off, mount, have framed and glazed.
put a good face upon, put a smiling face upon — clean the outside of the platter etc. (disguise) 544.

adjective

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.

adverb

with flourish of trumpet, with beat of drum, with flying colors.
ad captandum vulgus [Lat.].

phrase

honores mutant mores [Lat.].

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