| slovo | definícia |
pretentious
(encz) | pretentious,honosný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
pretentious
(encz) | pretentious,okázalý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Pretentious
(gcide) | Pretentious \Pre*ten"tious\, a. [Cf. F. pr['e]tentieux. See
Pretend.]
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.
[1913 Webster] |
pretentious
(wn) | pretentious
adj 1: making claim to or creating an appearance of (often
undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious
country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious
scholarly edition" [ant: unpretentious]
2: intended to attract notice and impress others; "an
ostentatious sable coat" [syn: ostentatious, pretentious]
[ant: unostentatious, unpretending, unpretentious]
3: (of a display) tawdry or vulgar [syn: ostentatious,
pretentious] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
pretentious
(encz) | pretentious,honosný adj: Zdeněk Brožpretentious,okázalý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
pretentiously
(encz) | pretentiously,honosně adv: Zdeněk Brožpretentiously,okázale adv: Zdeněk Brož |
pretentiousness
(encz) | pretentiousness,okázalost n: Zdeněk Brožpretentiousness,snobství n: Zdeněk Brož |
unpretentious
(encz) | unpretentious,nenáročný adj: Zdeněk Brožunpretentious,skromný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
unpretentiously
(encz) | unpretentiously, |
unpretentiousness
(encz) | unpretentiousness, n: |
Pretentiously
(gcide) | Pretentious \Pre*ten"tious\, a. [Cf. F. pr['e]tentieux. See
Pretend.]
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.
[1913 Webster] |
Pretentiousness
(gcide) | Pretentious \Pre*ten"tious\, a. [Cf. F. pr['e]tentieux. See
Pretend.]
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.
[1913 Webster] |
Unpretentious
(gcide) | Unpretentious \Unpretentious\
See pretentious. |
pretentious
(wn) | pretentious
adj 1: making claim to or creating an appearance of (often
undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious
country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious
scholarly edition" [ant: unpretentious]
2: intended to attract notice and impress others; "an
ostentatious sable coat" [syn: ostentatious, pretentious]
[ant: unostentatious, unpretending, unpretentious]
3: (of a display) tawdry or vulgar [syn: ostentatious,
pretentious] |
pretentiously
(wn) | pretentiously
adv 1: in a pretentious manner; "this author writes
pretentiously" [ant: unpretentiously] |
pretentiousness
(wn) | pretentiousness
n 1: lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and
puffed up with vanity [syn: ostentation,
ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness,
pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness, inflation]
2: the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in
such a manner as to create a false appearance of great
importance or worth) [syn: pretentiousness, pretension,
largeness] [ant: unpretentiousness] |
unpretentious
(wn) | unpretentious
adj 1: lacking pretension or affectation; "an unpretentious
country church"; "her quiet unpretentious demeanor" [ant:
pretentious]
2: not ostentatious; "his unostentatious office";
"unostentatious elegance" [syn: unostentatious,
unpretentious, unpretending] [ant: ostentatious,
pretentious]
3: exhibiting restrained good taste; "the room is pleasant and
understated" [syn: understated, unostentatious,
unpretentious] |
unpretentiously
(wn) | unpretentiously
adv 1: in an unpretentious manner; "she was unpretentiously
dressed even though she was the guest of honor" [ant:
pretentiously] |
unpretentiousness
(wn) | unpretentiousness
n 1: the quality of being natural and without pretensions [ant:
largeness, pretension, pretentiousness] |
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