pretentious
Adjective
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also: tasteless - lacking aesthetic or social tastesimilar to:
- arty - showily imitative of art or artists
- artsy-craftsy, arty-crafty - pretentiously artistic; cloyingly charming
- grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous - puffed up with vanity
- grandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da - affectedly genteel
- high-flown, high-sounding, inflated - pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals)
- jumped-up - (British informal) upstart
- nouveau-riche, parvenu, parvenue, upstart - characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position
- sententious - abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing
- sesquipedalian - given to the overuse of long words
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similar to:
- flaunty - inclined to flaunt
- flamboyant, showy, splashy - marked by ostentation but often tasteless
same as: ostentatious -
similar to: tasteless - lacking aesthetic or social tastesame as: ostentatious
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