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adjective Etymology: French pretentieux, from pretention pretension, from Medieval Latin pretention-, pretentio, from Latin praetendere Date: 1832 1. characterized by pretension: as a. making usually unjustified or excessive claims (as of value or standing) the ~ fraud who assumes a love of culture that is alien to him — Richard Watts b. expressive of affected, unwarranted, or exaggerated importance, worth, or stature ~ language ~ houses 2. making demands on one's skill, ability, or means ; ambitious the ~ daring of the Green Mountain Boys in crossing the lake — American Guide Series: Vermont Synonyms: see showy • ~ly adverb • ~ness noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. 1 making an excessive claim to great merit or importance. 2 ostentatious. Derivatives pretentiously adv. pretentiousness n. Etymology: F pr{eacute}tentieux (as PRETENSION) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. претенциозный pretentious book —- претенциозная книга to speak in pretentious language —- говорить вычурно 2. показной ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~ adj trying to seem more important, clever etc than you really are (It's pretentious of him to keep the complete works of Proust on full display. | a pretentious movie) (- opposite unpretentious) - pretentiously adv - pretentiousness n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1845, from Fr. prйtentieux, from prйtention "pretension," from M.L. pretentionem (nom. pretentio) "pretension," from L.L. prжtensus "pretend" (see pretense). ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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