Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - pretentious
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If you say that someone or something is pretentious, you mean that they try to seem important or significant, but you do not think that they are. His response was full of pretentious nonsense... ADJ c darkgreen]disapproval • pretentiousness He has a tendency towards pretentiousness. N-UNCOUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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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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- 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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