pretentious
Senso (Inglese)
- Motivated by an inappropriate, excessive, or unjustified desire to impress others.
- Marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction.
Concetti
sinonimi
Traduzioni
Frequenza
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/pɹɪ.ˈ tɛn.t͡ʃəs/
Etimologia (Inglese)
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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