Synonyms of the word ostentation


OSTENTATIONDISPLAY - FANFARE - FLASH - INELEGANCE - INFLATION - LARGENESS - OSTENTATIOUSNESS - POMPOSITY - POMPOUSNESS - PRETENSION - PRETENTIOUSNESS - PUFFINESS - SPLASHINESS

ostentation

  • n. Ambitious display; vain show; display intended to excite admiration or applause.
  • n. (obsolete) A show or spectacle.

display

  • n. A show or spectacle.
  • n. (computing) An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
  • n. (computing) The presentation of information for visual or tactile reception.
  • v. (obsolete) To spread out, to unfurl.
  • v. (transitive) To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
  • v. (military) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line.
  • v. (printing, dated) To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
  • v. (obsolete) To discover; to descry.

fanfare

  • n. (countable) A flourish of trumpets or horns as to announce; a short and lively air performed on hunting…
  • n. (uncountable) A show of ceremony or celebration.
  • v. To play a fanfare.
  • v. (music) To embellish with fanfares.
  • v. To imitate a fanfare, in order to dramatize the presentation or introduction of something.
  • v. To introduce with pomp and show.
  • v. To mark an arrival or departure with music, noise, or drama.
  • v. To publicize or announce.
  • v. To fan out.

flash

  • v. To briefly illuminate a scene.
  • v. To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
  • v. To be visible briefly.
  • v. To make visible briefly.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, informal) To briefly, and in most cases inadvertently, expose one's naked body…
  • v. (transitive, informal) To show or expose an "inappropriate" part of the body to someone for humorous reasons…
  • v. (figuratively) To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
  • v. To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
  • v. To communicate quickly.
  • v. To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
  • v. (transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
  • v. (intransitive, of liquid) To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.).
  • v. (transitive, climbing) To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
  • v. (computing) To write to the memory of an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge.
  • v. (glassmaking) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
  • v. (juggling) To perform a flash.
  • v. (metallurgy) To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To trick up in a showy manner.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.
  • n. A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
  • n. A very short amount of time.
  • n. (colloquial, US) A flashlight; an electric torch.
  • n. (figuratively) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
  • n. Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
  • n. (Britain, Cockney) The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
  • n. (juggling) A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
  • n. (linguistics) A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood…
  • n. (photography) Clipping of camera flash (“a device used to produce a flash of artificial light to help…
  • n. (archaic) A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for colouring liquor to make it look stronger.
  • adj. (Britain and New Zealand, slang) Expensive-looking and demanding attention; stylish; showy.
  • adj. (Britain, of a person) Having plenty of ready money.
  • adj. (Britain, of a person) Liable to show off expensive possessions or money.
  • adj. (US, slang) Occurring very rapidly, almost instantaneously.
  • n. A pool.
  • n. (engineering) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream…

inelegance

  • n. The state or quality of being inelegant; lack of grace, refinement, beauty, or polish in language, composition,…

inflation

  • n. An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas.
  • n. (economics) An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.
  • n. (economics) A decline in the value of money.
  • n. (economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
  • n. Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
  • n. (cosmology) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorised to have occurred very shortly after…

largeness

  • n. (obsolete) Liberality; generosity.
  • n. The property of being physically large.
  • n. The quality of not being limited or constrained; having great scope.

ostentatiousness

  • n. The property or characteristic of being ostentatious.

pomposity

  • n. The quality of being pompous; self-importance.

pompousness

  • n. The quality of being pompous.

pretension

  • n. A claim or aspiration to a particular status or quality.
  • n. Pretentiousness.
  • v. To apply tension to an object before some other event or process.
  • v. (construction) To apply tension to reinforcing strands before concrete is poured in.

pretentiousness

  • n. The quality of being pretentious.

puffiness

  • n. The state or quality of being puffy.

splashiness

  • n. The property of being splashy.

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