ostentation
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a gaudy outward display
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- swank derivation
- gaudy derivation
- ostentatious derivation
- flash derivation
Sense 2 noun
lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
Types & categories
- inelegance hypernym
Related & opposite
- ostentatious derivation
- overblown derivation
- ostentatious derivation
Sense 3 noun
pretentious or showy or vulgar display
Types & categories
- pretentiousness hypernym
Related & opposite
- swank derivation
- ostentatious derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | swank |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | gaudy |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | ostentatious |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | flash |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | display |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | bravado |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | exhibitionism |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | ritz |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | splurge |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | pedantry |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | ostentatious |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | overblown |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | ostentatious |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | inelegance |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | swank |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | ostentatious |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | pretentiousness |