pretentious

Questions about pretentious

What does pretentious mean?

pretentious means "making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pretentious?

pretentious has 3 syllables: pre-ten-tious. The stress falls on "ten". In IPA it is /pɹiˈtɛnʃəs/.

What is another word for pretentious?

Close synonyms include ostentatious, ostentatious. 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.

What is the opposite of pretentious?

The recorded antonyms are unpretentious.

Is pretentious a common word?

pretentious is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with pretentious?

2 words rhyme with pretentious. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.