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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | affected, put-on |
| Synonyms: | airish, apish, artificial, artsy, campy, chichi*, conscious, gone Hollywood, highfaluting, posed, pretentious, self-conscious, stilted, stuck up, unnatural |
| Antonyms: | natural, unpretentious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | camp |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | consciously affecting the unfashionable, weird, or bizarre |
| Synonyms: | Daliesque, affected, arch, artificial, avant-garde, far out, in, mannered, mod, ostentatious, pop, posturing, wild |
| Main Entry: | ceremonial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ritual, formal |
| Synonyms: | august, conventional, imposing, liturgical, lofty, mannered, ritualistic, solemn, stately, studied, stylized |
| Notes: | ceremonial is more often applied to things (clothing, etc.) and ceremonious is used for persons and things (occasion, venue) |
| Antonyms: | informal, unceremonial |
| Main Entry: | conscious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intentional |
| Synonyms: | affected, calculated, deliberate, knowing, mannered, premeditated, rational, reasoning, reflective, responsible, self-conscious, studied, willful |
| Notes: | conscience is the noun meaning 'a sense of right and wrong' while conscious is the adjective meaning 'aware of something, being awake' |
| Antonyms: | indifferent, not deliberate, unconscious, unfeeling, unintentional, unstudied |
| Main Entry: | self-conscious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insecure with oneself |
| Synonyms: | affected, anxious, artificial, awkward, bashful, diffident, discomfited, embarrassed, ill-at-ease, mannered, nervous, out of countenance, shamefaced, sheepish, shy, stiff, stilted, uncertain, uncomfortable, uneasy, unsure |
| Antonyms: | assured, secure, sure, unself-conscious |
| Main Entry: | starchy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | formal, stiff |
| Synonyms: | ceremonious, conventional, inflexible, mannered, prim, reserved, rigid, starched, stilted, strait-laced, strict, stuffy |
| Main Entry: | stiff |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | formal, standoffish |
| Synonyms: | angular, artificial, austere, ceremonious, cold, constrained, forced, hardheaded, headstrong, inflexible, intractable, labored, mannered, obstinate, pertinacious, pompous, priggish, prim, punctilious, relentless, starchy, stilted, strong, stubborn, uneasy, ungainly, ungraceful, unnatural, unrelaxed, unrelenting, wooden |
| Antonyms: | casual, graceful, informal |
| Main Entry: | theatrical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dramatic |
| Synonyms: | affected, amateur, artificial, campy, ceremonious, comic, dramaturgic, exaggerated, ham, hammy, histrionic, legitimate, mannered, melodramatic, meretricious, operatic, ostentatious, pompous, schmaltzy, show, showy, staged, stilted, superficial, theatric, thespian, tragic, unnatural, unreal, vaudeville |
| Antonyms: | comedic, real, undramatic, untheatrical |
| Main Entry: | posed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | formal |
| Synonyms: | awkward, mannered, stiff, unnatural |
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