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Translate pretentious from English to German

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pretentious:
- prätentiös; anspruchsvoll
Wiktionary:
- pretentious → protzig, prätentiös
- pretentious → prätentiös, eingebildet, eitel, selbstgefällig, affektiert, protzig

English

Detailed Translations for pretentious from English to German

pretentious:

pretentious adj

pretentious (presumptuous)
prätentiös; anspruchsvoll
- prätentiös adj
- anspruchsvoll adj

Translation Matrix for pretentious:

Adjective	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	ostentatious
Modifier	Related Translations	Other Translations
anspruchsvoll	presumptuous; pretentious	exacting; strenuous
prätentiös	presumptuous; pretentious

Related Words for "pretentious":

unpretentious, pretentiously

Synonyms for "pretentious":

arty; artsy-craftsy; arty-crafty; grandiloquent; overblown; pompous; pontifical; portentous; grandiose; hifalutin; highfalutin; highfaluting; hoity-toity; la-di-da; high-flown; high-sounding; inflated; jumped-up; nouveau-riche; parvenu; parvenue; upstart; sententious; sesquipedalian; tasteless
ostentatious; flaunty; showy; splashy
kitsch; tasteless

Antonyms for "pretentious":

unpretentious; unostentatious

Related Definitions for "pretentious":

intended to attract notice and impress others¹
making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction¹
- a pretentious country house¹
- a pretentious fraud¹
- a pretentious scholarly edition¹
(of a display) tawdry or vulgar¹

Wiktionary Translations for pretentious:

pretentious

adjective

marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction
- pretentious → protzig; prätentiös

pretentious

versuchend, durch besondere Darstellungsmöglichkeiten (Sprache, Aussehen usw.) höhere Bedeutung des Inhalts vorzugaukeln
- prätentiös → pretentious

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• pretentious	→ eingebildet; eitel; selbstgefällig; affektiert; prätentiös; protzig	↔ prétentieux — Qui a des prétentions, désireux d’attirer l’admiration d’autrui.

¹WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University