English to Binisaya - Cebuano Dictionary and Thesaurus.

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Word:

 

Word - rootword - affixes
artistahon - artista - -hon~
ar.tis.ta.hun. - 4 syllables

-hon = artistahon
artistahon

artistahon [ar.tis.tá.hun.] : pretentious (adj.)
artista [ar.tis.ta.] : actress (n.)

Derivatives of artista


Glosses:
pretentious
adj. 1. pretentiousmaking claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction.; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition"
~ artyshowily imitative of art or artists.
~ artsy-craftsy, arty-craftypretentiously artistic; cloyingly charming.
~ overblown, pompous, grandiloquent, pontifical, portentouspuffed up with vanity.; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"
~ hifalutin, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da, grandioseaffectedly genteel.
~ high-flown, high-sounding, inflatedpretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals).; "high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school"; "a high-sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution"
~ jumped-up(British informal) upstart.
~ nouveau-riche, parvenu, parvenue, upstartcharacteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position.
~ sententiousabounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing.; "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"
~ sesquipedaliangiven to the overuse of long words.; "sesquipedalian orators"; "this sesquipedalian way of saying one has no money"
~ tastelesslacking aesthetic or social taste.
adj. 2. ostentatious, pretentiousintended to attract notice and impress others.; "an ostentatious sable coat"
~ flauntyinclined to flaunt.
~ flamboyant, showy, splashymarked by ostentation but often tasteless.; "a cheap showy rhinestone bracelet"; "a splashy half-page ad"
adj. 3. ostentatious, pretentious(of a display) tawdry or vulgar.
~ tastelesslacking aesthetic or social taste.