Word Meanings - OSTENTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense. "Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm." Milton. He knew that good and bountiful minds were sometimes inclined to

Additional info about word: OSTENTATION

1. The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense. "Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm." Milton. He knew that good and bountiful minds were sometimes inclined to ostentation. Atterbury. 2. A show or spectacle. Shak. Syn. -- Parade; pageantry; show; pomp; pompousness; vaunting; boasting. See Parade.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OSTENTATION)

• Display
• Show
• exhibit
• unfold
• evidence
• evince
• flaunt
• vault
• expose
• ostentation
• spread out
• parade
• Grandeur
• Dignity
• magnificence
• display
• pomp
• Parade
• Vaunting
• flaunting
• show
• pageant
• procession
• spectacle
• Pomp
• Ostentation
• ceremony
• gorgeousness
• grandeur
• splendor
• pageantry
• publicity
• Vanity
• Emptiness
• unsubstantiality
• unreality
• falsity
• conceit
• self-sufficiency
• pride
• worthlessness
• triviality

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of OSTENTATION)

• Suppress
• conceal
• retire
• re-cede
• skulk
• hide
• shrivel
• collapse
• furl

Related words: (words related to OSTENTATION)

• SPECTACLE
  An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light. 4. pl. (more info) 1. Something exhibited to view; usually,
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• GRANDEUR
  The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye.
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• PAGEANT
  or stage, hence, what was exhibited on it, fr. LL. pagina, akin to pangere to fasten; cf. L. pagina page, leaf, slab, compaginare to join together, compages a joining together, structure. See Pact, Page 1. A theatrical exhibition; a spectacle.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• VAUNT
  To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag. Pride, which prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what he is, does incline him to disvalue what he has. Gov. of Tongue.
• VAULTING
  1. The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction. 2. Act of one who vaults or leaps.
• CONCEALED
  Hidden; kept from sight; secreted. -- Con*ceal"ed*ly (, adv. -- Con*ceal"ed*ness, n. Concealed weapons , dangerous weapons so carried on the person as to be knowingly or willfully concealed from sight, -- a practice forbidden by statute.
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• UNFOLDER
  One who, or that which, unfolds.
• VAULTY
  Arched; concave. "The vaulty heaven." Shak.
• SPLENDOR
  1. Great brightness; brilliant luster; brilliancy; as, the splendor ot the sun. B. Jonson. 2. Magnifience; pomp; parade; as, the splendor of equipage, ceremonies, processions, and the like. "Rejoice in splendor of mine own." Shak. 3. Brilliancy;
• EVINCE
  1. To conquer; to subdue. Error by his own arms is best evinced. Milton. 2. To show in a clear manner; to prove beyond any reasonable doubt; to manifest; to make evident; to bring to light; to evidence. Common sense and experience must and will
• DISPLAYER
  One who, or that which, displays.
• OSTENTATION
  1. The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense. "Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm." Milton. He knew that good and bountiful minds were sometimes inclined to
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• CONCEITEDLY
  1. In an egotistical manner. 2. Fancifully; whimsically.
• INEVIDENCE
  Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow.
• ENVAULT
  To inclose in a vault; to entomb. Swift.
• BEDSPREAD
  A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet.
• INSUPPRESSIBLE
  That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.
• INCONCEALABLE
  Not concealable. "Inconcealable imperfections." Sir T. Browne.