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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)

  1. (rare, transitive) 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
  2. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To boast, show off.

Questions about ostentated

What is ostentated the simple past and past participle of?
Ostentated is the simple past and past participle of ostentate.

Words near ostentated in the dictionary

  1. ostensory
  2. ostent
  3. ostenta
  4. ostentacious
  5. ostentate
  6. ostentated
  7. ostentates
  8. ostentating
  9. ostentation
  10. ostentations
  11. ostentatious

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