'ostentatious' definitions:
Definition of 'ostentatious'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Intended to attract notice and impress others; "an ostentatious sable coat" [syn: ostentatious, pretentious] [ant: unostentatious, unpretending, unpretentious]
adjective
(of a display) tawdry or vulgar [syn: ostentatious, pretentious]
Synonyms of 'ostentatious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affected,
- ambitious,
- arabesque,
- baroque,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- boastful,
- braggart,
- busy,
- chichi,
- classy,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- elaborate,
- elegant,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- fancy,
- fine,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flash,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- florid,
- flossy,
- flowery,
- frilly,
- fulsome,
- fussy,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- Gongoresque,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- high-toned,
- high-wrought,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- inkhorn,
- Johnsonian,
- labored,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- luxuriant,
- luxurious,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- moresque,
- ornate,
- orotund,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overinvolved,
- overlabored,
- overworked,
- overwrought,
- peacockish,
- peacocky,
- pedantic,
- picturesque,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- pretty-pretty,
- rhetorical,
- rich,
- rococo,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- splashy,
- stilted,
- swank,
- tall,
- theatrical,
- tony,
- tortuous,
- vain,
- vainglorious,
- vaunting