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Meaning of pretentious

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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