pretentious

Significat (Anglès)

  1. Motivated by an inappropriate, excessive, or unjustified desire to impress others.
  2. Marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction.

Conceptes

ostentós

pretenciós

Freqüència

C2
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/pɹɪ.ˈ tɛn.t͡ʃəs/
Etimologia (Anglès)

From French prétentieux, from prétention, from Latin praetēnsus (“false or hypocritical profession”), past participle of praetendō. Note that pretentious is spelled with a ‘t’, unlike related pretense, pretension. This is due to the French spelling: *-sious does not occur as an English suffix, though -sion and -tion both do.

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