His pretentious speech annoyed the audience.
他自命不凡的演讲让观众感到厌烦。
Choose the best synonym for the word “pretentious”:
B — showy. “pretentious” means adj. trying to appear more important or clever than you are
His ______ speech was full of very long words but had little real meaning.
A — pretentious. “pretentious” means adj. trying to appear more important or clever than you are
pretentious — adj. trying to appear more important or clever than you are. In Chinese: 自命不凡的，炫耀的.
pretentious is pronounced /prɪˈtɛnʃəs/. It breaks into 3 syllables: pre · ten · tious.
His pretentious speech annoyed the audience. (他自命不凡的演讲让观众感到厌烦。)
showy, ostentatious, affected — all close in meaning to pretentious (adj. trying to appear more important or clever than you are).
Yes. pretentious appears on the iSEE Vocab Basic list, which covers 2445 words for the ISEE and SSAT.