| Main Entry: | mannered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | affected, put-on |
Synonyms: |
airish, apish, artificial, artsy, campy, chichi*, conscious, gone Hollywood, highfaluting, posed, pretentious, self-conscious, stilted, stuck up, unnatural |
Antonyms: |
natural, unpretentious |
| Main Entry: | ostentatious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flashy, showy |
Synonyms: |
boastful, chichi*, classy, conspicuous, crass*, dashing, egotistic, exhibitionistic, extravagant, flamboyant, flatulent, flaunted, fussy, garish, gaudy, gay, glittery, grandiose, highfaluting, jaunty, loud, obtrusive, peacocky, pompous, pretentious, spectacular, splashy, splurgy, sporty, swank, swanky*, theatrical, tinsel, tony, uptown, vain, vulgar |
Antonyms: |
modest, plain, quiet, reserved |
| Main Entry: | pompous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant, egotistic |
Synonyms: |
affected, bloated, boastful, bombastic, conceited, flatulent, flaunting, flowery, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, high and mighty, high-flown, highfaluting, imperious, important, inflated, magisterial, magniloquent, narcissistic, orotund, ostentatious, overbearing, overblown, pontifical, portentous, presumptuous, pretentious, puffed up, puffy, rhetorical, self-centered, self-important, selfish, showy, sonorous, stuck-up, supercilious, turgid, uppity, vain, vainglorious, windy |
Antonyms: |
dull, modest, plain, simple, unassuming |
| Main Entry: | pretentious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | snobbish, conceited |
Synonyms: |
affected, arty, assuming, aureate, big*, bombastic, chichi*, conspicuous, euphuistic, exaggerated, extravagant, feigned, flamboyant, flashy, flaunting, flowery, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, high-flown, high-sounding, highfaluting, hollow, imposing, inflated, jazzy, la-di-da, lofty, magniloquent, mincing, ornate, ostentatious, overambitious, overblown, pompous, puffed up, put-on, rhetorical, showy, specious, splashy, stilted, swank, too-too, tumid, turgid, utopian, vainglorious |
Antonyms: |
humble, modest, unconceited |
| Main Entry: | stately |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dignified, impressive |
Synonyms: |
august, ceremonial, ceremonious, conventional, courtly, deliberate, elegant, elevated, formal, gallant, gracious, grand, grandiose, haughty, high, high-minded, highfaluting, imperial, imperious, imposing, kingly, large, lofty, luxurious, magnificent, majestic, massive, measured, monumental, noble, opulent, palatial, pompous, portly, proud, queenly, regal, royal, solemn, stiff, sumptuous, superb, towering |
Antonyms: |
common, ignoble, informal, undignified, unimpressive, unstately |
| Main Entry: | puffed-up |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pompous |
Synonyms: |
affected, bloated, boastful, bombastic, conceited, flatulent, flaunting, flowery, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, high and mighty, high-flown, highfaluting, hoity-toity, imperious, important, inflated, magisterial, magniloquent, narcissistic, orotund, ostentatious, overbearing, overblown, pontifical, portentous, presumptuous, pretentious, puffed up, puffy, rhetorical, self-centered, self-important, selfish, showy, sonorous, stuck-up, supercilious, turgid, uppity, vain, vainglorious, windy |