Front | ostentatious |
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Pron | [ˌɑːsten'teɪʃəs] |
Back | 【ostentatious】 adj.夸张的;虚饰的 He rode his new bicycle up and down in front of our house in an ostentatious way. 他骑了一部新的脚踏车,在我家前面夸耀地骑来骑去。 |
Vocab | ostentatiousintended to attract notice and impress others
Reach for the adjective ostentatious when you want a flashy way to say — well, "flashy" or "showy." No one wants to be described as ostentatious, a word whose cousins include pretentious, flamboyant, and gaudy. It originates from the Latin word ostentare, "to display," but in English it's often used for displays of the crass or vulgar sort. A rapper's diamond-encrusted teeth might be an ostentatious display of "bling," and someone wailing especially loudly at a funeral of a distant acquaintance might be making an ostentatious show of sorrow. All forms of 'ostentatious' will appear on average once every 1510 pages. ostentate ostentation ostentatious ostentatiously ostentatiousness unostentatious |
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