ostentatiously

1. 1.

   with ostentation; in an ostentatious manner

   “Mr Khrushchev ostentatiously wooed and embraced Castro at the U.N. general assembly”

   Synonymsshowily

Questions about ostentatiously

What does ostentatiously mean?

ostentatiously means "with ostentation; in an ostentatious manner".

How many syllables are in ostentatiously?

ostentatiously has 5 syllables: o-sten-ta-tiou-sly. The stress falls on "ta". In IPA it is /ˌɑstənˈteɪʃəsli/.

What is another word for ostentatiously?

Close synonyms include showily. 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 ostentatiously a common word?

ostentatiously is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.