pretentiousness

英 [prɪ'tenʃəsnəs] 美 [prɪ'tenʃəsnəs]

• n. 自命不凡

英英释义

Noun:

1. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity

2. the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. He greatly disliked what he perceived as the artificiality and pretentiousness of academic life.
   他很讨厌他所体会到的不自然的和自命不凡的学院生活。
2. Mahimacharan and Pratap Hazra were two devotees outstanding for their pretentiousness and idiosyncrasies.
   玛希玛切兰和帕拉塔普哈扎拉两位奉献者以自命不凡的特性而闻名。

词汇搭配

• pretentious 自命不凡的

近反义词

【近义词】

• vanity 自负
• snobbery 势利
• pretense 借口
• ostentation 卖弄
• largeness 巨大
• puffiness 虚胖
• pretension 声称
• inflation 通货膨胀
• pomposity 自大
• pompousness 傲慢
• splashiness splashy的名词形式...
• ostentatiousness 夸张

【反义词】

• unpretentiousness 不矜持