About The Word Ostentatious
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Ostentatious
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What's The Definition Of Ostentatious?
[adj] intended to attract notice and impress others; "an ostentatious sable coat"
[adj] of a display that is tawdry or vulgar Synonyms | Synonyms for Ostentatious: conspicuous | flaunty | in poor taste(p) | kitsch | pretentious | showy | splashy | tasteless Related Terms | Find terms related to Ostentatious: 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 | Gongoresque | grandiloquent | grandiose | grandisonant | highfalutin | highfaluting | high-flowing | high-flown | high-flying | high-sounding | high-toned | high-wrought | inkhorn | Johnsonian | 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 See Also | Ostentatious In Webster's Dictionary \Os`ten*ta"tious\, a.
Fond of, or evincing, ostentation; unduly conspicuous;
pretentious; boastful.
Far from being ostentatious of the good you do.
--Dryden.
The ostentatious professions of many years. --Macaulay.
-- {Os`ten*ta"tious*ly}, adv. -- {Os`ten*ta"tious*ness}, n.
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