01849288-a 'making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction';
 
English pretentious ( )
Definitions
English
making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction
a pretentious country house; a pretentious fraud; a pretentious scholarly edition
Japanese
あたかも重要であるかまたは傑出しているか(しばしば値しない)のように装うまたは主張する
; ;
Relations
See also: tasteless
Similar to: artsy-craftsy arty grandiloquent grandiose high-flown jumped-up nouveau-riche sententious sesquipedalian
Antonym: unpretentious
Semantic Field: alla
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SUMO: ⊂ SubjectiveAssessmentAttribute

TempoWN: (Past: 0.000; Present: 0.092; Future: 0.000)

SentiWN: (+0.38 -0.12) MLSentiCon: (+0.38 -0.12)


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