English to English
adjective
- making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction
A pretentious country house.
A pretentious fraud.
A pretentious scholarly edition.
source: WordNet 3.0
- intended to attract notice and impress others
An ostentatious sable coat.
source: WordNet 3.0
- Full of pretension; disposed to lay claim to more than is one's; presuming; assuming.
source: Webster 1913
adjective satellite
- (of a display) tawdry or vulgar
source: WordNet 3.0