The people who come on the Maury Povich show often make pretentious claims about their lovers cheating on them.
Source: tatoeba (1957)
Pretentious
//pɹɪˈtɛn.t͡ʃəs//
Synonyms for "pretentious" (178 found)
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Closest matches (36)
Strong matches (53)
Related words (89)
Adjective(24 words)
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lexiphanicloftyluridluxuriousmagniloquentmanieremanneredmarinisticmeretriciousmincingnouveau richeopulentorotundoveractedoverbearingoverblownoverdoneoverelaborateoverelegantoverinvolved
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Adjective(1 words)
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9 entriesderived
3 entriesetymologically related_to
2 entriesrelated to
11 entriessimilar
38 entriesShowing 16 of 38 words.
Translations
60 translations across 29 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- مَغْرُور adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
Belarusian
1 entries- прэтэнцыёзны adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
Bulgarian
2 entries- превзет adj (intended to impress others)
- претенциозен adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
Catalan
2 entries- ostentós adj (intended to impress others)
- pretensiós adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 做作 adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
- 炫耀的 adj (intended to impress others)
Czech
1 entries- domýšlivý adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
Danish
2 entries- prætentiøs adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
- selvhøjtidelig adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
Dutch
2 entries- pretentieus adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
- zelfingenomen adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
Finnish
2 entries- mahtaileva adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
- näyttävä adj (intended to impress others)
French
1 entries- prétentieux adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
Galician
1 entries- pretensioso adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
German
2 entries- protzig adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
- prätentiös adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
Hindi
2 entries- आडंबरी adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
- आडंबरी adj (intended to impress others)
Hungarian
2 entries- elbizakodott adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
- nagyképű adj (intended to impress others)
Irish
4 entries- gaisciúil adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
- gáifeach adj (intended to impress others)
- móiréiseach adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
- postúil adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
Italian
2 entries- pretenzioso adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
- pretenzioso adj (intended to impress others)
Macedonian
1 entries- претенцио́зен adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
Māori
1 entries- rangiwhata adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- pretensiøs adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
- pretensiøs adj (intended to impress others)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- pretensiøs adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
Polish
1 entries- pretensjonalny adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
Portuguese
2 entries- armante adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
- pretensioso adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
Romanian
1 entries- pretențios adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
Russian
2 entries- показно́й adj (intended to impress others)
- претенцио́зный adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
Spanish
4 entries- comparón adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
- pedante adj (intended to impress others)
- pretencioso adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
- pretencioso adj (intended to impress others)
Swedish
2 entries- anspråksfull adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
- pretentiös adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
Tagalog
2 entries- mapagkunwari adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
- mapagpanggap adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
Turkish
4 entries- gösterişçi adj (intended to impress others)
- göz boyama adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
- havalı (iinformal) adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
- iddialı adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
Vietnamese
1 entries- tự phụ adj (marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Her nature is neither affected nor pretentious.
Source: tatoeba (328345)
The French language, by the way, is a clear stream that affected writers have never been, and will never be able to ripple. Each century has thrown in this limpid current its fashions, its pretentious archaisms and its preciousness, without anything surfacing from those useless attempts, those powerless efforts. The nature of this language is to be clear, logical and nervous. It won't let itself be weakened, obscured or corrupted.
Source: tatoeba (704834)
You are so pretentious!
Source: tatoeba (1485709)
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