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What Is 'Semantic Bleaching'? A rich, upper-class person who builds a huge mansion is ostentatious. A middle-class person who builds the same huge mansion is pretentious.
Myridon said:. Click to expand Pretentious is more about a person's attitude, and is not necessarily related to issues of wealth. A pretentious person might just have a snobbish attitude, or have a kind of superiority complex--not necessarily because they think they are richer, but they might see themselves as better-read, etc Ostentatious doesn't have to be about wealth.
Behaviour, for instance, can be ostentatious too. It was beyond ridiculous, beyond ostentatious , but it was all going to end soon. The extraordinary price for the ostentatious gown proves that fascination with Princes Diana remains as strong today as ever. In the photo, the ostentatious monument is undercut literally by a temporary stall selling wares in its niche.
And Jack come home from a long cruise, with prize-money in his pockets, was as ostentatious as any nouveau riche. Kari averted his gaze because elephants are always irritated by the ostentatious bustle of a rhinoceros.
Then Griffith observed how delicate and prudent his lovely wife was, without ostentatious prudery; and his heart was at peace. An affected and pretentious woman is all deportment and words; a sensible woman shows her sense by her behaviour. Thus an imitation of sagacity becomes pretentious affectation. New Word List Word List. Save This Word! See synonyms for pretentious on Thesaurus.
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