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Uplifting vs Pretentious - What's the difference?

uplifting | pretentious |

As adjectives the difference between uplifting and pretentious

is that uplifting is improving the mood; causing cheerfulness while pretentious is marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction.

As a noun uplifting

is the act of something being lifted upward.

uplifting

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Improving the mood; causing cheerfulness.
    • Listening to whalesong can be very uplifting .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something being lifted upward.
  • * (Herman Melville)
    • prodigious long upliftings of their legs
  • * 1847 , The American Journal of Science and Arts (page 91)
    • The borders of large subsiding areas sooner or later experiencing deep fissurings and extensive upliftings through the tension or horizontal force of the subsiding crust

    pretentious

    English

    Alternative forms

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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction.
    • Their song titles are pretentious in the context of their basic lyrics.
  • Ostentatious; intended to impress others.
    • Her dress was obviously more pretentious than comfortable.

    Synonyms

    * poseur * See also

    Antonyms

    * unpretentious

    Derived terms

    * pretentiously * pretentiousness

    Related terms

    * pretend * pretender * pretense * pretension

    References

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