Usually means: Attempting to impress by affecting importance.
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  1. pretentious: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pretentious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pretentious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pretentious: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pretentious: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pretentious, pretentious: Wordnik
  7. pretentious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pretentious: Wiktionary
  9. pretentious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pretentious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pretentious: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Pretentious, pretentious: Dictionary.com
  13. pretentious: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. pretentious: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Pretentious: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Pretentious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pretentious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. pretentious: Rhymezone
  19. pretentious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pretentious: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. pretentious: Free Dictionary
  22. pretentious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. pretentious: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. pretentious: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. pretentious: Legal dictionary

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  1. pretentious: Urban Dictionary

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

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