Ostentatious

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ostentatious \Os`ten*ta"tious\, a.
     Fond of, or evincing, ostentation; unduly conspicuous;
     pretentious; boastful.
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           Far from being ostentatious of the good you do.


                                                    --Dryden.
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           The ostentatious professions of many years. --Macaulay.
     [1913 Webster] -- {Os`ten*ta"tious*ly}, adv. --
     {Os`ten*ta"tious*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ostentatious
       adj 1: intended to attract notice and impress others; "an
              ostentatious sable coat" [syn: {pretentious}] [ant: {unostentatious}]
       2: of a display that is tawdry or vulgar [syn: {pretentious}, {kitsch}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  90 Moby Thesaurus words for "ostentatious":
     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