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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. intended to attract notice and impress others;
- Example: "an ostentatious sable coat"
[syn: ostentatious, pretentious]

2. (of a display) tawdry or vulgar;
[syn: ostentatious, pretentious]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ostentatious \Os`ten*ta"tious\, a. Fond of, or evincing, ostentation; unduly conspicuous; pretentious; boastful. [1913 Webster] Far from being ostentatious of the good you do. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] The ostentatious professions of many years. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] -- Os`ten*ta"tious*ly, adv. -- Os`ten*ta"tious*ness, n. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

ostentatious adj 1: intended to attract notice and impress others; "an ostentatious sable coat" [syn: ostentatious, pretentious] [ant: unostentatious, unpretending, unpretentious] 2: (of a display) tawdry or vulgar [syn: ostentatious, pretentious]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

90 Moby Thesaurus words for "ostentatious": Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, ambitious, arabesque, baroque, bedizened, big-sounding, boastful, braggart, busy, chichi, classy, convoluted, declamatory, elaborate, elegant, elevated, euphuistic, fancy, fine, flamboyant, flaming, flash, flashy, flaunting, florid, flossy, flowery, frilly, fulsome, fussy, garish, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, high-toned, high-wrought, highfalutin, highfaluting, inkhorn, labored, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, luxuriant, luxurious, magniloquent, meretricious, moresque, ornate, orotund, overdone, overelaborate, overelegant, overinvolved, overlabored, overworked, overwrought, peacockish, peacocky, pedantic, picturesque, pompous, pretentious, pretty-pretty, rhetorical, rich, rococo, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy, sonorous, splashy, stilted, swank, tall, theatrical, tony, tortuous, vain, vainglorious, vaunting