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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ostentatious \Os'ten*ta"tious\, adjective Fond of, or evincing, ostentation; unduly conspicuous; pretentious; boastful.
Far from being ostentatious of the good you do. --Dryden.
The ostentatious professions of many years. --Macaulay. -- {Os'ten*ta"tious*ly}, adverb -- {Os'ten*ta"tious*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
ostentatious
adjective
1: intended to attract notice and impress others; "an ostentatious sable coat" [syn: {pretentious}] [ant: {unostentatious}]
2: of a display that is tawdry or vulgar [syn: {pretentious}, {kitsch}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
90 Moby Thesaurus words for "ostentatious": Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, ambitious, arabesque, baroque, bedizened, big-sounding, boastful, braggart, busy, chichi, classy, convoluted, declamatory, elaborate, elegant, elevated, euphuistic, fancy, fine, flamboyant, flaming, flash, flashy, flaunting, florid, flossy, flowery, frilly, fulsome, fussy, garish, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, high-toned, high-wrought, highfalutin, highfaluting, inkhorn, labored, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, luxuriant, luxurious, magniloquent, meretricious, moresque, ornate, orotund, overdone, overelaborate, overelegant, overinvolved, overlabored, overworked, overwrought, peacockish, peacocky, pedantic, picturesque, pompous, pretentious, pretty-pretty, rhetorical, rich, rococo, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy, sonorous, splashy, stilted, swank, tall, theatrical, tony, tortuous, vain, vainglorious, vaunting
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