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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to pretentious:   (206 results)

Antonyms:
unostentatious, unpretentious

Often used in the same context:
pompous, pedantic, twee, snobby, snobbish, trite, cliched, highfalutin, snooty, condescending, highbrow, corny, preachy, obtuse, cloying, cheesy, egotistical, overdetermined, melodramatic, conceited, tacky, unoriginal, philistine, hackneyed, solipsistic, smug, sniffy, sneery, banal, glib, lowbrow, effete, maudlin, snotty, deconstructionist, uncool, mawkish, hokey, grandiloquent, nabokovian, vacuous, reductive, uninteresting, artsy, cutesy, stagey, sophomoric, whiny, overwrought, kitschy, hifalutin, trashy, boring, au courant, dilettantish, artless, sappy, didactic, vapid, humorless, overfamiliar, prissy, judgmental, puerile, unquotable, uncreative, crass, funny, bland, dislikable, ungifted, obnoxious, unentertaining, snarky, lunkheaded, jejune, rebarbative, unmodern, onanistic, silly, prepossessing, prolix, formulaic, poncey, unenjoyable, supercilious, overemotional, overlong, wordy, pernickety, nihilistic, unbeautiful, talky, overdramatic, modish, outre, unimaginative, unadventurous, dopier, fussy, sarcastic, poetic, profaneness, surmise, treasons, accident, ado, affectation, affright, ancient, atom, basic, bloodshed, boastings, botch, bruise, caricature, caricatures, chimera, cogent, commonplace, conceivable, unpretentious, elegant, handsomest, quaint, unpretending, fashioned, inelegant, grander, grandest, unassuming, vulgar, bombastic, clumsy, oldfashioned, politer, tasteful, uninspired, dignified

Appears in the definition of:
arrogator, baloney, bilgewater, blah, boloney, bombast, bosh, claptrap, debunk, drool, expose, fustian, gaudery, high-flown, high-sounding, humbug, inflated, kitsch, ostentation, oxford english, pretension, pretentiously, pretentiousness, rant, sciolism, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle, villa

Synonyms:
artsy-craftsy, arty, arty-crafty, conspicuous, flaunty, grandiloquent, grandiose, hifalutin, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, in poor taste, inflated, jumped-up, kitsch, la-di-da, nouveau-riche, ostentatious, overblown, parvenu, parvenue, pompous, pontifical, portentous, sententious, sesquipedalian, showy, splashy, tasteless, upstart

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— Nouns for pretentious: house, houses, title, name building, claims, buildings, style, work, language, works, more...

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