ostentated
ostentated is the simple past and past participle of ostentate.
Meaning of ostentate
Verb
ostentate (third-person singular simple present ostentates, present participle ostentating, simple past and past participle ostentated)
- To make an ambitious display of; to exhibit or show boastingly.
- It cannot avoid the brand of arrogancy, as well as hypocrisy, to challenge and ostentate that beauty or handsomeness of complexion as ours, which indeed is none of ours by any genuine right or property.1701, John Gauden (attributed), Several Letters between Two Ladies Wherein the Lawfulness and Unlawfulness of Artificial Beauty
- Synonyms:
- ostent
- To boast, show off.
- Synonyms:
- exhibitionize, ostent, swagger, aura farm, boulevardier, cut a wide swath, cut it fat, cut round, figure away, flamboast
Questions about ostentated
- What is ostentated the simple past and past participle of?
- Ostentated is the simple past and past participle of ostentate.
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