Synonyms of the word

pretentious

• adj. Marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction.
• adj. Ostentatious; intended to impress others.

artsy-craftsy

• adj. (not comparable) Related to arts and crafts; crafted or decorated manually by an artisan.
• adj. (comparable, often derogatory) Crafted in an excessively decorated manner; trivial or affected in design…

arty

• adj. Pretending to artistic worth; high-flown.

arty-crafty

• adj. Alternative form of artsy-craftsy.

flaunty

• adj. flaunting; showy; meretricious.

grandiloquent

• adj. (of a person, their language or writing) given to using language in a showy way by using an excessive…

grandiose

• adj. large and impressive, in size, scope or extent.
• adj. pompous or pretentious.

hifalutin

• adj. Alternative form of highfalutin.

high-flown

• adj. pretentiously eloquent; highly figurative.
• adj. lofty, extravagant, refined.

high-sounding

• adj. Having an elevated or moralistic tone.
• adj. Oratorial or even contrived sounding.

highfalutin

• adj. (US, informal) Self-important, pompous; arrogant or egotistical.
• n. (archaic) Pompous speech or writing.

highfaluting

• adj. Alternative form of highfalutin.

hoity-toity

• adj. Pompous, self-important and snobbish.

inflated

• adj. Filled with air or fluid.
• adj. Expanded; in a state of inflation, of abnormally increased size, amount, etc.
• adj. (economics): In a state of higher cost.
• adj. (figuratively) Pompous; arrogant (of a person or ego).
• adj. (figuratively) Containing excessive, meaningless words, particularly for show.
• adj. Higher that the true figure.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of inflate.

jumped-up

• adj. (idiomatic, pejorative) Describes a person who thinks or acts as if he/she is superior in some way that…
• adj. that has risen from a lowly station or an inferior position: often with implication of conceit or arrogance.

kitsch

• n. Art, decorative objects and other forms of representation of questionable artistic or aesthetic value;…
• adj. Of art and decor: of questionable aesthetic value; excessively sentimental, overdone or vulgar.

la-di-da

• adj. Disdainful description of pretension or haughtiness.
• interj. Expression of disdain for pretension or haughtiness.

ostentatious

• adj. Of ostentation.
• adj. Intended to attract notice.
• adj. Of tawdry display; kitsch.

overblown

• adj. Of exaggerated importance; too heavily emphasized, hyped, etc.
• v. past participle of overblow.

parvenu

• n. A person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class, especially through…
• adj. Being a parvenu; also, like, having the characteristics of, or associated with a parvenu.

parvenue

• n. feminine equivalent of parvenu.

pompous

• adj. Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.

pontifical

• adj. Of or pertaining to a pontiff.
• adj. Pompous, dignified or dogmatic.
• adj. Of or pertaining to the pontifices of Ancient Rome.
• adj. Of or relating to the building of bridges.
• n. A book containing the offices, or formulas, used by a pontiff.

portentous

• adj. Of momentous or ominous significance.
• adj. Ominously prophetic.
• adj. Puffed up with vanity.

sententious

• adj. (obsolete) Full of meaning.
• adj. Using as few words as possible; pithy and concise.
• adj. Tending to use aphorisms or maxims, especially given to trite moralizing.

sesquipedalian

• n. A long word.
• n. A person who uses long words.
• adj. (of a word or words) long; polysyllabic.
• adj. Pertaining to or given to the use of overly long words.

showy

• adj. (sometimes derogatory) calling attention; flashy; standing out to the eye.

splashy

• adj. Relating to making splashes or the sound of splashing.
• adj. Showy, ostentatious.
• adj. Splashed with color.

tasteless

• adj. Having no flavour; bland, insipid.
• adj. Lacking delicacy, refinement and good taste; unbecoming, crass.

upstart

• n. One who has suddenly gained wealth, power, or other prominence, but either has not received social acceptance…
• n. The meadow saffron.
• adj. self-important and presumptuous.
• v. to rise suddenly, to spring.