Word Meanings - PRETENTIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Full of pretension; disposed to lay claim to more than is one's; presuming; assuming. -- Pre*ten"tious*ly, adv. -- Pre*ten"tious*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRETENTIOUS)

• Plausible
• Specious
• superficial
• passable
• unctuous
• fair-spoken
• pretentious
• ostensible
• right
• apparently
• colorable
• feasible
• Pompous
• Magnificent
• gorgeous
• splendid
• showy
• sumptuous
• ostentatious
• stately
• lofty
• grand
• bombastic
• turgid
• stiff
• Inflated
• coxcombical
• assuming

Related words: (words related to PRETENTIOUS)

• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• MAGNIFICENTLY
  In a Magnificent manner.
• ASSUMABLE
  That may be assumed.
• SPLENDIDIOUS
  Splendid.
• INFLATE
  Blown in; inflated. Chaucer.
• 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.
• 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,
• 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.
• INFLATED
  Hollow and distended, as a perianth, corolla, nectary, or pericarp. Martyn. 4. Distended or enlarged fictitiously; as, inflated prices, etc. (more info) 1. Filled, as with air or gas; blown up; distended; as, a balloon inflated with gas. 2. Turgid;
• GRANDMA; GRANDMAMMA
  A grand mother.
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
  The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
• GRANDUNCLE
  father's or mother's uncle.
• STIFFENING
  1. Act or process of making stiff. 2. Something used to make anything stiff. Stiffening order , a permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship.
• GRANDIFIC
  Making great. Bailey.
• INFLATER
  One who, or that which, inflates; as, the inflaters of the stock exchange.
• ASSUMEDLY
  By assumption.
• APPARENTLY
  1. Visibly. Hobbes. 2. Plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently. If he should scorn me so apparently. Shak. 3. Seemingly; in appearance; as, a man may be apparently friendly, yet malicious in heart.
• GRANDILOQUENT
  Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
• PLAUSIBLENESS
  Quality of being plausible.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• NON ASSUMPSIT
  The general plea or denial in an action of assumpsit.
• SARGASSUM
  A genus of algæ including the gulf weed.
• CARTWRIGHT
  An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• INDEFEASIBLE
  Not to be defeated; not defeasible; incapable of being annulled or made void; as, an indefeasible or title. That the king had a divine and an indefeasible right to the regal power. Macaulay.
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• SHRIGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Shriek. She cried alway and shright. Chaucer.