Synonyms: pretentious, ostentatious
Definition: intended to attract notice and impress others
Usage: an ostentatious sable coat
Similar words: flaunty
Definition: inclined to flaunt
Similar words: flamboyant, splashy, showy
Definition: marked by ostentation but often tasteless
Usage: a cheap showy rhinestone bracelet; a splashy half-page ad
Synonyms: pretentious
Definition: making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction
Usage: a pretentious country house; a pretentious fraud; a pretentious scholarly edition
Similar words: arty
Definition: showily imitative of art or artists
Similar words: artsy-craftsy, arty-crafty
Definition: pretentiously artistic; cloyingly charming
Similar words: overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous, grandiloquent
Definition: puffed up with vanity
Usage: a grandiloquent and boastful manner; overblown oratory; a pompous speech; pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey- Newsweek
Similar words: grandiose, hoity-toity, hifalutin, highfalutin, highfaluting, la-di-da
Definition: affectedly genteel
Similar words: high-flown, high-sounding, inflated
Definition: pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals)
Usage: high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school; a high-sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution
Similar words: jumped-up
Definition: (British informal) upstart
Similar words: upstart, parvenu, parvenue, nouveau-riche
Definition: characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position
Similar words: sententious
Definition: abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing
Usage: too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation- Kathleen Barnes
Similar words: sesquipedalian
Definition: given to the overuse of long words
Usage: sesquipedalian orators; this sesquipedalian way of saying one has no money
Synonyms: ostentatious, pretentious
Definition: (of a display) tawdry or vulgar
Similar words: tasteless
Definition: lacking aesthetic or social taste