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- trying to seem more important or clever than you really are: a pretentious film Many art critics are extremely pretentious. (Definition of pretentious from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
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The meaning of PRETENTIOUS is characterized by pretension. How to use pretentious in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Pretentious.
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PRETENTIOUS definition: 1. trying to appear or sound more important or clever than you are, especially in matters of art…. Learn more.
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. [disapproval] His response was full of pretentious nonsense. This pub was of a very different type, smaller, less pretentious.
trying to appear or sound more important or smarter than you are, especially in matters of art and literature: a pretentious art critic. The novel deals with grand themes, but is never heavy or pretentious. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Affected & insincere.
Definitions of pretentious. adjective. making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction. “a pretentious country house”. “a pretentious fraud”. “a pretentious scholarly edition”. synonyms: arty. showily imitative of art or artists.
Pretentious definition: characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved. See examples of PRETENTIOUS used in a sentence.
There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective pretentious, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
