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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | artificial, pretentious |
| Synonyms: | affected, angular, aureate, bombastic, constrained, decorous, egotistic, euphuistic, flowery, forced, formal, genteel, grandiloquent, high-flown, high-sounding, inflated, labored, magniloquent, mincing, overblown, pedantic, pompous, prim, rhetorical, sonorous, stiff, unnatural, wooden |
| Antonyms: | genuine, honest, true |
| Main Entry: | brittle |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tense |
| Synonyms: | curt, edgy, irritable, nervous, prim, short, stiff, stilted |
| Antonyms: | relaxed, resilient |
| Main Entry: | formal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stiff, affected, correct |
| Synonyms: | aloof, by the numbers, ceremonious, conventional, decorous, distant, exact, nominal, playing the game, polite, precise, prim, punctilious, reserved, seemly, sententious, starched, stilted, straight arrow, stuffy, unbending |
| Antonyms: | customary, informal, normal, relaxed, unaffected |
| Main Entry: | mannered |
| 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: | mincing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | affected, pretentious |
| Synonyms: | artificial, dainty, delicate, effeminate, fastidious, finical, finicky, fussy, genteel, insincere, la-di-da, nice, particular, persnickety, precious, sissy, squeamish, stilted, too-too, unnatural |
| Antonyms: | extroverted, unaffected, unpretentious |
| Main Entry: | pedantic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bookish, precise |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, academic, arid, didactic, doctrinaire, donnish, dry, dull, egotistic, erudite, formal, fussy, hairsplitting, learned, nit-picking, ostentatious, overnice, particular, pedagogic, pompous, priggish, punctilious, scholastic, schoolish, sententious, stilted |
| Antonyms: | imprecise, informal |
| Main Entry: | ponderous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dreary, tedious |
| Synonyms: | arid, barren, cardboard, dry, dull, heavy, humdrum*, labored, lifeless, long-winded, monotonous, pedantic, pedestrian, plodding, prolix, stiff*, stilted, stodgy, stuffy, vapid, verbose, wooden |
| Antonyms: | fun, light |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pretentious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | snobbish, conceited |
| Synonyms: | affected, arty, assuming, aureate, big*, bombastic, chichi*, conspicuous, euphuistic, exaggerated, extravagant, feigned, flamboyant, flashy, flaunting, flowery, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, high-flown, high-sounding, highfaluting, hollow, imposing, inflated, jazzy, la-di-da, lofty, magniloquent, mincing, ornate, ostentatious, overambitious, overblown, pompous, puffed up, put-on, rhetorical, showy, specious, splashy, stilted, swank, too-too, tumid, turgid, utopian, vainglorious |
| Antonyms: | humble, modest, unconceited |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prudish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shy and strict in behavior |
| Synonyms: | Victorian, affected, artificial, austere, bigoted, conventional, demure, fastidious, finicky*, genteel, illiberal, mincing, narrow, narrow-minded, offish, overexact, overmodest, overnice, precise, pretentious, priggish, prim, prissy, proper, puritanical, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, severe, simpering, square, squeamish, starchy, stern, stiff*, stilted, straitlaced, stuffy, uptight* |
| Notes: | prudent means careful and sensible or marked by sound judgment, while prudish means excessively proper or modest in speech, conduct or dress |
| Antonyms: | bold, brave, extroverted, outgoing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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