ostentation 音标拼音: [
, ɔstɛnt'eʃən]
n . 虚饰,虚有其表,卖弄
虚饰,虚有其表,卖弄
ostentation n 1 :
a gaudy outward display [
synonym : {
ostentation }, {
fanfare },
{
flash }]
2 :
lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity [
synonym : {
ostentation }, {
ostentatiousness },
{
pomposity }, {
pompousness }, {
pretentiousness }, {
puffiness },
{
splashiness }, {
inflation }]
3 :
pretentious or showy or vulgar display Ostentation \
Os `
ten *
ta "
tion \,
n . [
L .
ostentatio :
cf .
F .
ostentation .]
1 .
The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display ;
unnecessary show ;
pretentious parade ; --
usually in a detractive sense . "
Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm ."
--
Milton .
[
1913 Webster ]
He knew that good and bountiful minds were sometimes inclined to ostentation . --
Atterbury .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
A show or spectacle . [
Obs .] --
Shak .
[
1913 Webster ]
Syn :
Parade ;
pageantry ;
show ;
pomp ;
pompousness ;
vaunting ;
boasting .
See {
Parade }.
[
1913 Webster ]
162 Moby Thesaurus words for "
ostentation ":
Barnumism ,
acting ,
affectation ,
appearance ,
arabesque ,
arrantness ,
attitudinizing ,
baroque ,
baroqueness ,
bedizenment ,
big talk ,
blatancy ,
bluff ,
bluffing ,
boldness ,
cheating ,
chinoiserie ,
color ,
coloring ,
conspicuousness ,
convolution ,
deception ,
delusion ,
demonstration ,
disguise ,
display ,
dissemblance ,
dissembling ,
dissimulation ,
elaborateness ,
elegance ,
enactment ,
exhibit ,
exhibition ,
exhibitionism ,
exposition ,
exposure ,
facade ,
face ,
fakery ,
faking ,
false air ,
false front ,
false show ,
falsity ,
fanciness ,
feigning ,
feint ,
fineness ,
flagrance ,
flagrancy ,
flamboyance ,
flashiness ,
flatulence ,
flatulency ,
flaunting ,
floridity ,
floridness ,
flourish ,
floweriness ,
four -
flushing ,
fraud ,
front ,
fulsomeness ,
garishness ,
gaudiness ,
gilt ,
gloss ,
grandiloquence ,
grandioseness ,
grandiosity ,
high relief ,
high -
flown diction ,
humbug ,
humbuggery ,
imposture ,
inflatedness ,
inflation ,
lexiphanicism ,
loftiness ,
luridness ,
luxuriance ,
luxuriousness ,
magniloquence ,
masquerade ,
mere rhetoric ,
meretriciousness ,
moresque ,
noticeability ,
notoriety ,
notoriousness ,
obtrusiveness ,
opening ,
orotundity ,
ostentatious complexity ,
outstandingness ,
outward show ,
overelaborateness ,
overelegance ,
overornamentation ,
parade ,
performance ,
platitudinous ponderosity ,
playacting ,
polysyllabic profundity ,
pomposity ,
pompous prolixity ,
pompousness ,
pontification ,
pose ,
posing ,
posture ,
presentation ,
presentment ,
pretense ,
pretension ,
pretentiousness ,
pretext ,
production ,
projection ,
prominence ,
pronouncedness ,
prose run mad ,
representation ,
retrospective ,
rhetoric ,
rhetoricalness ,
richness ,
rococo ,
salience ,
saliency ,
seeming ,
semblance ,
sensationalism ,
sententiousness ,
sham ,
show ,
showiness ,
showing ,
simulacrum ,
simulation ,
speciousness ,
stiltedness ,
strikingness ,
strong relief ,
swelling utterance ,
swollen phrase ,
swollenness ,
tall talk ,
tortuosity ,
tortuousness ,
tumidity ,
tumidness ,
turgescence ,
turgidity ,
unfolding ,
unfoldment ,
unveiling ,
varnish ,
varnishing day ,
vernissage ,
window dressing
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