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Definition of ostentatious in English: ostentatiousadjective ˌɒstɛnˈteɪʃəsˌɑstənˈteɪʃəs Characterized by pretentious or showy display; designed to impress. 炫耀的，卖弄的；讲究排场的，惹人注目的 a simple design that is glamorous without being ostentatious 富有魅力而又不豪华的朴实设计。 Example sentencesExamples - Buying an island seems the pinnacle of ostentatious extravagance.
- Bernard rides around the town in an ostentatious sports car and behaves like a cowardly bully.
- But there are few cases of ostentatious opulence amid the poverty.
- The book was needlessly massive and it came in a choice of eight ostentatious satin covers.
- There's no easy remedy, especially when ostentatious teen role models portray money as no object.
- It's gaudy, it's ostentatious, and it's exactly what one would expect from a rock star that thinks he's God.
- Hat designer Tracy Rose, 42, renowned for her ostentatious hats on Ladies' Day, was also attired in a weather theme.
- His way of life may seem a bit ostentatious, but his energy and enthusiasm is infectious, and there is nothing snobbish or affected about him.
- Instead, they show us a suite that would, perhaps, have been a little too ostentatious for a spiritual leader.
- She wears an ostentatious diamond ring and a pearl the size of a marble.
- She doesn't own a fleet of ostentatious cars or a portfolio of grand homes.
- For those who spend down their wealth on a lavish and ostentatious lifestyle, there is no tax.
- He was always smartly dressed but not in an ostentatious way.
- While we do not insist on you taking to the streets on a bicycle, we do encourage a less ostentatious lifestyle.
- London at the time was a curious mixture of ostentatious wealth hiding harrowing poverty.
- Civilised behaviour is the key to appearing middle class, so don't binge drink, never swear and don't do anything ostentatious.
- Hey you - people in love, do you have to be so ostentatious about it?
- The family are keen attenders at St Agnes Catholic Church, and Papa's piety is effortful and ostentatious.
- He was a generous but not ostentatious philanthropist; his private and family life was wholly conventional.
- They contribute generously to village and family enterprises and avoid ostentatious displays of affluence.
Synonyms showy, pretentious, conspicuous, obtrusive, flamboyant, gaudy, garish, tinsel, tinselly, brash, vulgar, loud, extravagant, fancy, ornate, affected, theatrical, actorly, overdone, over-elaborate, kitsch, tasteless informal flash, flashy, fancy-pants, over the top, OTT, glitzy, ritzy, swanky, splashy North American informal bling-bling, superfly US informal dicty
RhymesAthanasius, audacious, bodacious, cactaceous, capacious, carbonaceous, contumacious, Cretaceous, curvaceous, disputatious, edacious, efficacious, fallacious, farinaceous, flirtatious, foliaceous, fugacious, gracious, hellacious, herbaceous, Ignatius, loquacious, mendacious, mordacious, perspicacious, pertinacious, pugnacious, rapacious, sagacious, salacious, saponaceous, sebaceous, sequacious, setaceous, spacious, tenacious, veracious, vexatious, vivacious, voracious Definition of ostentatious in US English: ostentatiousadjectiveˌɑstənˈteɪʃəsˌästənˈtāSHəs Characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; designed to impress or attract notice. 炫耀的，卖弄的；讲究排场的，惹人注目的 books that people buy and display ostentatiously but never actually finish Example sentencesExamples - It's gaudy, it's ostentatious, and it's exactly what one would expect from a rock star that thinks he's God.
- She wears an ostentatious diamond ring and a pearl the size of a marble.
- There's no easy remedy, especially when ostentatious teen role models portray money as no object.
- For those who spend down their wealth on a lavish and ostentatious lifestyle, there is no tax.
- Bernard rides around the town in an ostentatious sports car and behaves like a cowardly bully.
- London at the time was a curious mixture of ostentatious wealth hiding harrowing poverty.
- The family are keen attenders at St Agnes Catholic Church, and Papa's piety is effortful and ostentatious.
- Hey you - people in love, do you have to be so ostentatious about it?
- He was always smartly dressed but not in an ostentatious way.
- Buying an island seems the pinnacle of ostentatious extravagance.
- They contribute generously to village and family enterprises and avoid ostentatious displays of affluence.
- She doesn't own a fleet of ostentatious cars or a portfolio of grand homes.
- The book was needlessly massive and it came in a choice of eight ostentatious satin covers.
- Hat designer Tracy Rose, 42, renowned for her ostentatious hats on Ladies' Day, was also attired in a weather theme.
- But there are few cases of ostentatious opulence amid the poverty.
- While we do not insist on you taking to the streets on a bicycle, we do encourage a less ostentatious lifestyle.
- Instead, they show us a suite that would, perhaps, have been a little too ostentatious for a spiritual leader.
- His way of life may seem a bit ostentatious, but his energy and enthusiasm is infectious, and there is nothing snobbish or affected about him.
- He was a generous but not ostentatious philanthropist; his private and family life was wholly conventional.
- Civilised behaviour is the key to appearing middle class, so don't binge drink, never swear and don't do anything ostentatious.
Synonyms showy, pretentious, conspicuous, obtrusive, flamboyant, gaudy, garish, tinsel, tinselly, brash, vulgar, loud, extravagant, fancy, ornate, affected, theatrical, actorly, overdone, over-elaborate, kitsch, tasteless
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