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pretentious:
- vano; creído; pretencioso; pagado de sí mismo; pedante; presumido; vanidoso; insolente; arrogante; presuntuoso
Wiktionary:
- pretentious → pretencioso, macanudo
- pretentious → pretencioso

English

Detailed Translations for pretentious from English to Spanish

pretentious:

pretentious adj

pretentious (presumptuous)
vano; creído; pretencioso; pagado de sí mismo; pedante; presumido; vanidoso; insolente; arrogante; presuntuoso
- vano adj
- creído adj
- pretencioso adj
- pagado de sí mismo adj
- pedante adj
- presumido adj
- vanidoso adj
- insolente adj
- arrogante adj
- presuntuoso adj

Translation Matrix for pretentious:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
pedante		know-it-all; smart-alec; smarty-pants
presumido		boaster; braggart; windbag; yapper
vanidoso		a vain creature
vano		doorway
Adjective	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	ostentatious
Modifier	Related Translations	Other Translations
arrogante	presumptuous; pretentious	arrogant; condescending; depreciatory; derogatory; disparaging; haughty; high-and-mighty; high-handed; impudent; insolent; overbearing; presumptuous; proud; self-satisfied; shameless; slighting; stuck-up; supercilious; superior
creído	presumptuous; pretentious	fresh; pedantic; unbroached; unopened; untouched; unused
insolente	presumptuous; pretentious	arrogant; blunt; boorish; condescending; doggish; haughty; high-handed; ill-bred; impudent; indecent; insolent; objectionable; offending; offensive; overbearing; presumptuous; rude; rustic; self-satisfied; shameless; stuck-up; supercilious; superior; uncivilised; uncivilized; uneducated; unmannerly
pagado de sí mismo	presumptuous; pretentious	arrogant; bumptious; conceited; condescending; foppish; haughty; high-handed; overbearing; presumptuous; self-satisfied; stuck-up; supercilious; superior; swanky
pedante	presumptuous; pretentious	against the grain; arrogant; bumptious; clever-clever; conceited; condescending; didactic; foppish; haughty; high-handed; immovable; inflexible; magisterial; obstinate; overbearing; pedagogic; pedantic; ponderous; presumptuous; priggish; recalcitrant; rigid; schoolmarmish; self-satisfied; smarty; star; stern; straight-backed; stubborn; stuck-up; supercilious; superior; swanky; unbending
presumido	presumptuous; pretentious	arrogant; boastful; boasting; bragging; bumptious; conceited; condescending; foppish; fresh; futile; glorious; grandiloquent; haughty; high-handed; lofty; overbearing; pedantic; presumptuous; proud; self-satisfied; stuck-up; supercilious; superior; swanky; unbroached; unopened; untouched; unused; vigorous
presuntuoso	presumptuous; pretentious	arrogant; bumptious; conceited; condescending; deceitful; deceptive; foppish; haughty; high-handed; misleading; overbearing; pedantic; presumptuous; priggish; self-satisfied; stuck-up; supercilious; superior; swanky; untrue; untruthful
pretencioso	presumptuous; pretentious	arrogant; condescending; haughty; high-handed; overbearing; presumptuous; self-satisfied; stuck-up; supercilious; superior
vanidoso	presumptuous; pretentious	arrogant; bumptious; conceited; condescending; empty; foppish; fresh; haughty; high-handed; overbearing; pedantic; presumptuous; proud; self-satisfied; stuck-up; supercilious; superior; swanky; unbroached; unopened; untouched; unused
vano	presumptuous; pretentious	arrogant; condescending; empty; fresh; good-for-nothing; haughty; high-handed; meaningless; overbearing; pointless; presumptuous; self-satisfied; senseless; stuck-up; supercilious; superior; unbroached; unopened; untouched; unusable; unused; useless

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 → pretencioso; macanudo

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• pretentious	→ pretencioso	↔ prätentiös — versuchend, durch besondere Darstellungsmöglichkeiten (Sprache, Aussehen usw.) höhere Bedeutung des Inhalts vorzugaukeln
• pretentious	→ pretencioso	↔ prétentieux — Qui a des prétentions, désireux d’attirer l’admiration d’autrui.

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