Usually means: Affectedly refined, pretentious, or posh.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. la-di-da: Merriam-Webster
  2. la-di-da: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. la-di-da: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. la-di-da, la-di-da: Collins English Dictionary
  5. la-di-da: Vocabulary.com
  6. la-di-da: Wordnik
  7. la-di-da: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. la-di-da: Wiktionary
  9. la-di-da: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. la-di-da: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. la-di-da: Dictionary.com
  12. la-di-da: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. la-di-da: Rhymezone
  14. La-di-da: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  15. la-di-da: FreeDictionary.org
  16. la-di-da: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. la-di-da: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. la-di-da, la-di-da: A Word A Day
  2. la-di-da: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. la-di-da: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. la-di-da: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  affectedly genteel

Similar:
grandiose, hifalutin, pretentious, hoity-toity, highfalutin, highfaluting, da kind, Delhite, Dakhini, Adelaidian, more...

Opposite:
unpretentious, down-to-earth, humble, modest

Types:
affected, snooty, stuck-up, highfalutin, hoity-toity, poncy, more...


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Similar:
grandiose, hifalutin, pretentious, hoity-toity, highfalutin, highfaluting, da kind, Delhite, Dakhini, Adelaidian, more...

Opposite:
unpretentious, down-to-earth, humble, modest

Types:
affected, snooty, stuck-up, highfalutin, hoity-toity, poncy, more...



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