Definition of ostentatious in English:

ostentatious

adjective ˌɒstɛnˈteɪʃəsˌɑstənˈteɪʃəs

Characterized by pretentious or showy display; designed to impress.
a simple design that is glamorous without being ostentatious
Example sentencesExamples
- Buying an island seems the pinnacle of ostentatious extravagance.
- Bernard rides around the town in an ostentatious sports car and behaves like a cowardly bully.
- But there are few cases of ostentatious opulence amid the poverty.
- The book was needlessly massive and it came in a choice of eight ostentatious satin covers.
- There's no easy remedy, especially when ostentatious teen role models portray money as no object.
- It's gaudy, it's ostentatious, and it's exactly what one would expect from a rock star that thinks he's God.
- Hat designer Tracy Rose, 42, renowned for her ostentatious hats on Ladies' Day, was also attired in a weather theme.
- His way of life may seem a bit ostentatious, but his energy and enthusiasm is infectious, and there is nothing snobbish or affected about him.
- Instead, they show us a suite that would, perhaps, have been a little too ostentatious for a spiritual leader.
- She wears an ostentatious diamond ring and a pearl the size of a marble.
- She doesn't own a fleet of ostentatious cars or a portfolio of grand homes.
- For those who spend down their wealth on a lavish and ostentatious lifestyle, there is no tax.
- He was always smartly dressed but not in an ostentatious way.
- While we do not insist on you taking to the streets on a bicycle, we do encourage a less ostentatious lifestyle.
- London at the time was a curious mixture of ostentatious wealth hiding harrowing poverty.
- Civilised behaviour is the key to appearing middle class, so don't binge drink, never swear and don't do anything ostentatious.
- Hey you - people in love, do you have to be so ostentatious about it?
- The family are keen attenders at St Agnes Catholic Church, and Papa's piety is effortful and ostentatious.
- He was a generous but not ostentatious philanthropist; his private and family life was wholly conventional.
- They contribute generously to village and family enterprises and avoid ostentatious displays of affluence.
Synonyms
showy, pretentious, conspicuous, obtrusive, flamboyant, gaudy, garish, tinsel, tinselly, brash, vulgar, loud, extravagant, fancy, ornate, affected, theatrical, actorly, overdone, over-elaborate, kitsch, tasteless
informal flash, flashy, fancy-pants, over the top, OTT, glitzy, ritzy, swanky, splashy
North American informal bling-bling, superfly
US informal dicty

Derivatives

ostentatiousness

noun ˌɒstɛnˈteɪʃəsnəsˌɑst(ə)nˈteɪʃəsnəs

Perched high over the ocean, the modest homes spoke of a more reasonable society free from the ostentatiousness of mainstream Hollywood.
Example sentencesExamples
- Of course some percentage of this represented authentic business and educational expense, but much of it was pure ostentatiousness or ‘gallery’ as we are wont to describe in local parlance.
- Her ostentatiousness is endearing, if you can swallow both the musical and vocal flourishes.
- Del Mar never grew to an unmanageable size or broad-avenued ostentatiousness, because it couldn't.

Rhymes

Athanasius, audacious, bodacious, cactaceous, capacious, carbonaceous, contumacious, Cretaceous, curvaceous, disputatious, edacious, efficacious, fallacious, farinaceous, flirtatious, foliaceous, fugacious, gracious, hellacious, herbaceous, Ignatius, loquacious, mendacious, mordacious, perspicacious, pertinacious, pugnacious, rapacious, sagacious, salacious, saponaceous, sebaceous, sequacious, setaceous, spacious, tenacious, veracious, vexatious, vivacious, voracious

Definition of ostentatious in US English:

ostentatious

adjectiveˌɑstənˈteɪʃəsˌästənˈtāSHəs

Characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; designed to impress or attract notice.
books that people buy and display ostentatiously but never actually finish
Example sentencesExamples
- It's gaudy, it's ostentatious, and it's exactly what one would expect from a rock star that thinks he's God.
- She wears an ostentatious diamond ring and a pearl the size of a marble.
- There's no easy remedy, especially when ostentatious teen role models portray money as no object.
- For those who spend down their wealth on a lavish and ostentatious lifestyle, there is no tax.
- Bernard rides around the town in an ostentatious sports car and behaves like a cowardly bully.
- London at the time was a curious mixture of ostentatious wealth hiding harrowing poverty.
- The family are keen attenders at St Agnes Catholic Church, and Papa's piety is effortful and ostentatious.
- Hey you - people in love, do you have to be so ostentatious about it?
- He was always smartly dressed but not in an ostentatious way.
- Buying an island seems the pinnacle of ostentatious extravagance.
- They contribute generously to village and family enterprises and avoid ostentatious displays of affluence.
- She doesn't own a fleet of ostentatious cars or a portfolio of grand homes.
- The book was needlessly massive and it came in a choice of eight ostentatious satin covers.
- Hat designer Tracy Rose, 42, renowned for her ostentatious hats on Ladies' Day, was also attired in a weather theme.
- But there are few cases of ostentatious opulence amid the poverty.
- While we do not insist on you taking to the streets on a bicycle, we do encourage a less ostentatious lifestyle.
- Instead, they show us a suite that would, perhaps, have been a little too ostentatious for a spiritual leader.
- His way of life may seem a bit ostentatious, but his energy and enthusiasm is infectious, and there is nothing snobbish or affected about him.
- He was a generous but not ostentatious philanthropist; his private and family life was wholly conventional.
- Civilised behaviour is the key to appearing middle class, so don't binge drink, never swear and don't do anything ostentatious.
Synonyms
showy, pretentious, conspicuous, obtrusive, flamboyant, gaudy, garish, tinsel, tinselly, brash, vulgar, loud, extravagant, fancy, ornate, affected, theatrical, actorly, overdone, over-elaborate, kitsch, tasteless

单词	ostentatious
释义	Definition of ostentatious in English: ostentatious adjective ˌɒstɛnˈteɪʃəsˌɑstənˈteɪʃəs Characterized by pretentious or showy display; designed to impress. a simple design that is glamorous without being ostentatious Example sentencesExamples Buying an island seems the pinnacle of ostentatious extravagance. Bernard rides around the town in an ostentatious sports car and behaves like a cowardly bully. But there are few cases of ostentatious opulence amid the poverty. The book was needlessly massive and it came in a choice of eight ostentatious satin covers. There's no easy remedy, especially when ostentatious teen role models portray money as no object. It's gaudy, it's ostentatious, and it's exactly what one would expect from a rock star that thinks he's God. Hat designer Tracy Rose, 42, renowned for her ostentatious hats on Ladies' Day, was also attired in a weather theme. His way of life may seem a bit ostentatious, but his energy and enthusiasm is infectious, and there is nothing snobbish or affected about him. Instead, they show us a suite that would, perhaps, have been a little too ostentatious for a spiritual leader. She wears an ostentatious diamond ring and a pearl the size of a marble. She doesn't own a fleet of ostentatious cars or a portfolio of grand homes. For those who spend down their wealth on a lavish and ostentatious lifestyle, there is no tax. He was always smartly dressed but not in an ostentatious way. While we do not insist on you taking to the streets on a bicycle, we do encourage a less ostentatious lifestyle. London at the time was a curious mixture of ostentatious wealth hiding harrowing poverty. Civilised behaviour is the key to appearing middle class, so don't binge drink, never swear and don't do anything ostentatious. Hey you - people in love, do you have to be so ostentatious about it? The family are keen attenders at St Agnes Catholic Church, and Papa's piety is effortful and ostentatious. He was a generous but not ostentatious philanthropist; his private and family life was wholly conventional. They contribute generously to village and family enterprises and avoid ostentatious displays of affluence. Synonyms showy, pretentious, conspicuous, obtrusive, flamboyant, gaudy, garish, tinsel, tinselly, brash, vulgar, loud, extravagant, fancy, ornate, affected, theatrical, actorly, overdone, over-elaborate, kitsch, tasteless informal flash, flashy, fancy-pants, over the top, OTT, glitzy, ritzy, swanky, splashy North American informal bling-bling, superfly US informal dicty Derivatives ostentatiousness noun ˌɒstɛnˈteɪʃəsnəsˌɑst(ə)nˈteɪʃəsnəs Perched high over the ocean, the modest homes spoke of a more reasonable society free from the ostentatiousness of mainstream Hollywood. Example sentencesExamples Of course some percentage of this represented authentic business and educational expense, but much of it was pure ostentatiousness or ‘gallery’ as we are wont to describe in local parlance. Her ostentatiousness is endearing, if you can swallow both the musical and vocal flourishes. Del Mar never grew to an unmanageable size or broad-avenued ostentatiousness, because it couldn't. Rhymes Athanasius, audacious, bodacious, cactaceous, capacious, carbonaceous, contumacious, Cretaceous, curvaceous, disputatious, edacious, efficacious, fallacious, farinaceous, flirtatious, foliaceous, fugacious, gracious, hellacious, herbaceous, Ignatius, loquacious, mendacious, mordacious, perspicacious, pertinacious, pugnacious, rapacious, sagacious, salacious, saponaceous, sebaceous, sequacious, setaceous, spacious, tenacious, veracious, vexatious, vivacious, voracious Definition of ostentatious in US English: ostentatious adjectiveˌɑstənˈteɪʃəsˌästənˈtāSHəs Characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; designed to impress or attract notice. books that people buy and display ostentatiously but never actually finish Example sentencesExamples It's gaudy, it's ostentatious, and it's exactly what one would expect from a rock star that thinks he's God. She wears an ostentatious diamond ring and a pearl the size of a marble. There's no easy remedy, especially when ostentatious teen role models portray money as no object. For those who spend down their wealth on a lavish and ostentatious lifestyle, there is no tax. Bernard rides around the town in an ostentatious sports car and behaves like a cowardly bully. London at the time was a curious mixture of ostentatious wealth hiding harrowing poverty. The family are keen attenders at St Agnes Catholic Church, and Papa's piety is effortful and ostentatious. Hey you - people in love, do you have to be so ostentatious about it? He was always smartly dressed but not in an ostentatious way. Buying an island seems the pinnacle of ostentatious extravagance. They contribute generously to village and family enterprises and avoid ostentatious displays of affluence. She doesn't own a fleet of ostentatious cars or a portfolio of grand homes. The book was needlessly massive and it came in a choice of eight ostentatious satin covers. Hat designer Tracy Rose, 42, renowned for her ostentatious hats on Ladies' Day, was also attired in a weather theme. But there are few cases of ostentatious opulence amid the poverty. While we do not insist on you taking to the streets on a bicycle, we do encourage a less ostentatious lifestyle. Instead, they show us a suite that would, perhaps, have been a little too ostentatious for a spiritual leader. His way of life may seem a bit ostentatious, but his energy and enthusiasm is infectious, and there is nothing snobbish or affected about him. He was a generous but not ostentatious philanthropist; his private and family life was wholly conventional. Civilised behaviour is the key to appearing middle class, so don't binge drink, never swear and don't do anything ostentatious. Synonyms showy, pretentious, conspicuous, obtrusive, flamboyant, gaudy, garish, tinsel, tinselly, brash, vulgar, loud, extravagant, fancy, ornate, affected, theatrical, actorly, overdone, over-elaborate, kitsch, tasteless
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