ADJ-GRADED 自命不凡的;自负的;矫饰的;炫耀的 If you say that someone or something is pretentious, you mean that they try to seem important or significant, but you do not think that they are. 自命不凡的;自负的;矫饰的;炫耀的 [disapproval]
His response was full of pretentious nonsense.
他的答复是一派荒谬的虚夸之词。
This pub was of a very different type, smaller, less pretentious.