Usually means: Display wealth or knowledge showily.
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  1. ostentate: Merriam-Webster
  2. ostentate: Vocabulary.com
  3. ostentate: Wordnik
  4. ostentate: Wiktionary
  5. Ostentate, ostentate: Dictionary.com
  6. Ostentate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. ostentate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. ostentate: Rhymezone
  9. Ostentate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. ostentate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. ostentate: FreeDictionary.org
  12. ostentate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. Ostentate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. ostentate: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ostentate)

▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To make an ambitious display of; to exhibit or show boastingly.

Similar:
ostent, overboast, rodomontade, boast, outbrag, beyelp, overflourish, bombast, vainglory, Barnumize, more...

Opposite:
modest, unassuming, humble, simple

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Similar:
ostent, overboast, rodomontade, boast, outbrag, beyelp, overflourish, bombast, vainglory, Barnumize, more...

Opposite:
modest, unassuming, humble, simple



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