Usually means: Showy display meant to impress.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word ostentatious:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. ostentatious: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ostentatious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ostentatious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ostentatious: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ostentatious: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ostentatious, ostentatious: Wordnik
  7. ostentatious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ostentatious: Wiktionary
  9. ostentatious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. ostentatious: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Ostentatious, ostentatious: Dictionary.com
  12. ostentatious: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Ostentatious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. ostentatious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. ostentatious: Rhymezone
  16. Ostentatious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. ostentatious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. ostentatious: Free Dictionary
  19. ostentatious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. ostentatious: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

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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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