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pretentious    音标拼音: [prit'ɛnʃəs]
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pretentious
adj 1: making claim to or creating an appearance of (often
undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious
country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious
scholarly edition" [ant: {unpretentious}]
2: intended to attract notice and impress others; "an
ostentatious sable coat" [synonym: {ostentatious}, {pretentious}]
[ant: {unostentatious}, {unpretending}, {unpretentious}]
3: (of a display) tawdry or vulgar [synonym: {ostentatious},
{pretentious}]

Pretentious \Pre*ten"tious\, a. [Cf. F. pr['e]tentieux. See
{Pretend}.]
Full of pretension; disposed to lay claim to more than is
one's; presuming; assuming. -- {Pre*ten"tious*ly}, adv. --
{Pre*ten"tious*ness}, n.
[1913 Webster]

114 Moby Thesaurus words for "pretentious":
Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Johnsonian, Marinistic, affected,
ambitious, arrogant, artificial, arty, aureate, bedizened, big,
big-sounding, bombastic, chichi, classy, convoluted, declamatory,
elaborate, elaborated, elevated, euphuistic, exaggerated,
extravagant, fancy, feigned, flamboyant, flaming, flashy,
flaunting, flossy, flowery, fulsome, garish, gassy, gaudy,
grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, haughty, high and mighty,
high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-hat, high-sounding,
high-swelling, high-toned, highfalutin, highfaluting, histrionic,
hoity-toity, hyperelegant, imposing, inflated, inkhorn, insincere,
la-di-da, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, magniloquent,
maniere, mannered, meretricious, mincing, orotund, ostentatious,
overacted, overblown, overdone, overelaborate, overelegant,
overinvolved, overnice, overrefined, overwrought, peacockish,
peacocky, pedantic, pompous, precieuse, precieux, precious, put-on,
rhetorical, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy,
snobbish, snotty, sonorous, splashy, stagy, stilted, studied,
superficial, swank, swollen, tall, theatrical, tony, too-too,
tortuous, tumid, turgid, unnatural, utopian, vainglorious,
vaunting, visionary, windy


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  • What Makes a Film Pretentious? : r movies - Reddit
    It's overly stylized to the point that it's pretentious about its own coolness edginess, if not its emotional dramatic content I can also see how one would classify Se7en as pretentious, with its slightly hamfisted and overblown morality play that inflates a standard procedural, you could almost picture it as a grimdark 90s comic
  • Most Pretentious food names youve heard : r Cooking - Reddit
    It's pretentious to use french in non french speaking countries to make things sound fancy, yes Of course it is If you were in France, then it would be different But to use french words in the names of your food just to make them sound fancy is obviously pretentious
  • My issue with the word pretentious used during discussion of . . . - Reddit
    Pretentious is a perception of a viewer, a work seems pretentious, it's a subjective interpretation by the viewer But that's what criticism is EDIT: You also say "You can say that a film tried to bite off more than it could chew", and that's pretty much the definition of overambitious, and therefore, pretentious
  • [OPINION] What makes a poem pretentious? : r Poetry - Reddit
    Or how to avoid being pretentious when writing poems It's curious that - from what I've seen - people seem to consider a poem pretentious when it's using big words, obscure phrases and grandiloquency to convey a simple thing, yet this is the kind of poetry you'll most commonly find in a library, an anthology signing event, a friend's bookcase
  • What makes a book “pretentious?” : r books - Reddit
    Pretentious is a highly subjective word that gets thrown around a lot Many times it is because someone observing a piece of art lacks the framework to understand how the art works or interpret the meaning it creates
  • r unpopularopinion on Reddit: Pretentious, fine dining food can be . . .
    Pretentious, fine dining food can be absolutely excellent and the people who hate on it have never eaten the real deal I see a lot of people talk massive shit about high end ($$$$) restaurants with comments like “imagine paying that much for such a small plate!
  • What is the most pretentious film ever? : r movies - Reddit
    Truly pretentious films, on the other hand, tend to be nothing more than a bully pulpit for the writer director to offer whatever they perceive to be as universal truths Bonus points for unnecessary juxtaposition of any attempts to discuss beauty or love with images of a scatological or offensively pornographic nature, as if by their mere
  • Pretentious is an overused, dismissive criticism that to never be . . .
    If pretentious means what I think it does, then Garden State is probably one that comes to mind right off the bat It seemed like a movie that was trying to be cooler than it was, deeper than it was, smarter than it was, quirkier than it was, etc Almost everything about it, from the trying-for-arthouse cinematography, to the sadcore vibe, to
  • Anyone else really fucking tired of pretentious foodie . . . - Reddit
    Your criticism of pretentious places and Noma clones is valid, but there's equally shitty places on the other end of the spectrum On the plus side, if you wade through all the shit, we have more great restaurants than ever before Tons of places serve ethnic food, comfort food is making a comeback, and some places do experimental food right
  • What do you think is the most pretentious word? : r logophilia - Reddit
    Vis-à-vis, complete with pretentious accented letter and snooty French pronunciation I love using in-language pronunciation when it makes sense, but this phrase in particular seems like it’s most often used as a clumsy cudgel to make the speaker sound smart smarter than the listener





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