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: o-sten-tate. The stress falls on "o".

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.