Usually means: Showy display meant to impress.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word ostentatious:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. ostentatious: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. ostentatious: Merriam-Webster
  3. ostentatious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. ostentatious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. ostentatious: Collins English Dictionary
  6. ostentatious: Vocabulary.com
  7. Ostentatious, ostentatious: Wordnik
  8. ostentatious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. ostentatious: Wiktionary
  10. ostentatious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ostentatious: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Ostentatious, ostentatious: Dictionary.com
  13. ostentatious: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Ostentatious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. ostentatious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. ostentatious: Rhymezone
  17. Ostentatious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. ostentatious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. ostentatious: FreeDictionary.org
  20. ostentatious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. ostentatious: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ostentatious: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ostentatious: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ostentatious, ostentatious: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See ostentatiously as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of ostentation.
adjective:  Intended to attract notice.
adjective:  Of tawdry display; kitsch.

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