| Main Entry: | la-di-da |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | affected |
Synonyms: |
apish, artificial, assumed, awkward, campy, chichi*, conceited, contrived, counterfeit, counterfeited, faked, false, feigned, fraud*, gone Hollywood, ham, hammy, high falutin', hollow, imitated, insincere, mannered, melodramatic, ostentatious, overdone, pedantic, phony, playacting, pompous, precious, pretended, pretentious, put-on, schmaltzy, self-conscious, shallow, sham*, simulated, spurious, stiff, stilted, studied, superficial, theatrical, unnatural |
| Main Entry: | genteel |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sophisticated, cultured |
Synonyms: |
affected, aristocratic, artificial, chivalrous, civil, confined, courteous, courtly, cultivated, distingué, elegant, fashionable, formal, graceful, hollow, intolerant, la-di-da, mannerly, noble, ostentatious, polished, polite, pompous, precious, pretentious, priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, refined, respectable, straitlaced, stuffy, stylish, urbane, well-behaved, well-bred, well-mannered |
| Notes: | genteel means marked by refinement in taste and manners; a gentile is a person who does not acknowledge your God or denotes a Christian as contrasted with a Jew; gentle means soft and mild or having or showing a kindly or tender nature |
Antonyms: |
boorish, callous, rough, rude, rugged, uncultured, unrefined, unsophisticated |
| Main Entry: | mincing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | affected, pretentious |
Synonyms: |
artificial, dainty, delicate, effeminate, fastidious, finical, finicky, fussy, genteel, insincere, la-di-da, nice, particular, persnickety, precious, sissy, squeamish, stilted, too-too, unnatural |
Antonyms: |
extroverted, unaffected, unpretentious |
| Main Entry: | posh |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | luxurious, upper-class |
Synonyms: |
chic, classy, deluxe, elegant, exclusive, fashionable, grand, high-class, la-di-da, luxury, modish, opulent, rich, ritzy, smart, swank, swanky*, swish, trendy |
Antonyms: |
destitute, lower-class, poor |
| Main Entry: | precious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extremely sophisticated and picky |
Synonyms: |
affected, alembicated, artful, artificial, chichi*, choosy, dainty, delicate, fastidious, finicky, fragile, fussy, la-di-da, nice, ostentatious, overnice, overrefined, particular, persnickety*, precieux, pretentious, refined, showy, stagy, studied |
Antonyms: |
defective, deficient, impaired |
| 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: | snooty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | haughty |
Synonyms: |
arrogant, cavalier*, conceited, condescending, egotistic, egotistical, high and mighty, hoity-toity, la-di-da, lofty, on a high horse, pompous, pretentious, snobbish, snotty, stuck-up, superior, uppity |
| Main Entry: | old-maidish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | genteel |
Synonyms: |
Victorian, affected, aristocratic, artificial, bluenosed, chivalrous, civil, confined, courteous, courtly, cultivated, distingué, elegant, fashionable, formal, graceful, hollow, intolerant, la-di-da, mannerly, noble, ostentatious, polished, polite, pompous, precious, precise, pretentious, priggish, prim, prim and proper, prissy, proper, prudish, puritanical, refined, respectable, strait-laced, straitlaced, stuffy, stylish, urbane, well-behaved, well-bred, well-mannered |