ostentate

Other forms of ostentate

past tense

ostentated·

present participle

ostentating·

third person

ostentates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ostentate

What does ostentate mean?

ostentate means "display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously".

How many syllables are in ostentate?

ostentate has 3 syllables and divides as o-sten-tate under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for ostentate?

Close synonyms include flaunt, flash, show off, swank. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ostentate a common word?

ostentate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.