Pretentious 601 Words You Need to Know to Pass Your Exam with text-to-speech functionality to practice listening comprehension and in authentic passages to improve your reading in our visual dictionary and thesaurus /prɪˈtent.ʃəs/ (adj) Definition trying to prove or show that you're more important than you really are, bombastic, bumptious, pontifical, ostentatious, grandiose, exaggerated, overambitious, grandiloquent, conceited, showy, affected, inflated, flamboyant, pompous Example Pretentiousness grows out of an awareness the social self, or the version of oneself that exists in the eyes of others. Pretentiousness can develop from a genuine belief that one is better than someone else, or a ...
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