ostentatious

ostentatious

/ˌɑstənˈteɪʃəs/

🎨 Appearance & Aesthetics

characterized by vulgar or pretentious display

ostentatious in a sentence

“His ostentatious display of wealth was off-putting.”

Origin of ostentatious

Latin ostentare to display, show off (frequentative of ostendere to show) from ob- before + tendere to stretch