Pretentious vs Audacious - What's the difference?
pretentious | audacious |
Marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction.
Ostentatious; intended to impress others.
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Showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring.
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
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Impudent.
As adjectives the difference between pretentious and audacious
is that pretentious is marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction while audacious is showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring.pretentious
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Alternative forms
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(en adjective)- Their song titles are pretentious in the context of their basic lyrics.
- Her dress was obviously more pretentious than comfortable.
Synonyms
* poseur * See alsoAntonyms
* unpretentiousDerived terms
* pretentiously * pretentiousnessReferences
audacious
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Adjective
(en adjective)- That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.