Word Meanings - OSTENTATIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OSTENTATIOUS)

• Fine
• Thin
• minute
• slender
• delicate
• pure
• smooth
• filmy
• gauzy
• keen
• artistic
• choice
• finished
• high
• Grand
• noble
• sensitive
• refined
• generous
• honorable
• excellent
• superior
• pretty
• beautiful
• showy
• elegant
• ostentatious
• presumptuous
• nice
• casuistical
• subtle
• Flaring
• Flaming
• glaring
• conspicuous
• gaudy
• bright
• over-colored
• flaunting
• flashy
• tawdry
• Pompous
• Magnificent
• gorgeous
• splendid
• sumptuous
• stately
• lofty
• grand
• bombastic
• turgid
• stiff
• Inflated
• pretentious
• coxcombical
• assuming
• Proud
• Arrogant
• haughty
• imperious
• supercilious
• boastful
• vain glorious
• vain
• elated
• self-satisfied
• imposing
• magnificent
• self-conscious

Related words: (words related to OSTENTATIOUS)

• MAGNIFICENTLY
  In a Magnificent manner.
• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• ASSUMABLE
  That may be assumed.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• BEAUTIFUL
  Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind. A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram. Lord Kames. Syn. -- Handsome; elegant; lovely; fair; charming; graceful;
• IMPOSABLE
  Capable of being imposed or laid on. Hammond.
• SPLENDIDIOUS
  Splendid.
• INFLATE
  Blown in; inflated. Chaucer.
• FLARE-UP
  A sudden burst of anger or passion; an angry dispute.
• GRANDEUR
  The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye.
• SENSITIVE
  1. Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul. 2. Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the
• GORGEOUS
  Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak. -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n. (more info) luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff,
• PROUDLING
  A proud or haughty person. Sylvester.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• ELATION
  A lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity. "Felt the elation of triumph." Sir W. Scott.
• STIFFENER
  One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
• GRANDEESHIP
  The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship. H. Swinburne.
• FINISHER
  1. One who finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work, or any part of it, and brings it to perfection. O prophet of glad tidings,
• PROUD
  prout, prud, prut, AS. prut; akin to Icel. pruedhr stately, handsome, 1. Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense; as: Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly;
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• MANDELATE
  A salt of mandelic acid.
• GELATIFICATION
  The formation of gelatin.
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• NON ASSUMPSIT
  The general plea or denial in an action of assumpsit.
• BURGLARIOUSLY
  With an intent to commit burglary; in the manner of a burglar. Blackstone.