ostentatious

ostentatious
    adj 1: intended to attract notice and impress others; "an
           ostentatious sable coat" [syn: {ostentatious},
           {pretentious}] [ant: {unostentatious}, {unpretending},
           {unpretentious}]
    2: (of a display) tawdry or vulgar [syn: {ostentatious},
       {pretentious}]
    

Ostentatious \Os`ten*ta"tious\, a.
   Fond of, or evincing, ostentation; unduly conspicuous;
   pretentious; boastful.
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         Far from being ostentatious of the good you do.
                                                  --Dryden.
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         The ostentatious professions of many years. --Macaulay.
   [1913 Webster] -- {Os`ten*ta"tious*ly}, adv. --
   {Os`ten*ta"tious*ness}, n.
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90 Moby Thesaurus words for "ostentatious":
      Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, ambitious, arabesque, baroque,
      bedizened, big-sounding, boastful, braggart, busy, chichi, classy,
      convoluted, declamatory, elaborate, elegant, elevated, euphuistic,
      fancy, fine, flamboyant, flaming, flash, flashy, flaunting, florid,
      flossy, flowery, frilly, fulsome, fussy, garish, gaudy,
      grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown,
      high-flying, high-sounding, high-toned, high-wrought, highfalutin,
      highfaluting, inkhorn, labored, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty,
      lurid, luxuriant, luxurious, magniloquent, meretricious, moresque,
      ornate, orotund, overdone, overelaborate, overelegant,
      overinvolved, overlabored, overworked, overwrought, peacockish,
      peacocky, pedantic, picturesque, pompous, pretentious,
      pretty-pretty, rhetorical, rich, rococo, sensational,
      sensationalistic, sententious, showy, sonorous, splashy, stilted,
      swank, tall, theatrical, tony, tortuous, vain, vainglorious,
      vaunting