Home   Reverse Dictionary / Thesaurus  Customize   Spruce   Help


OneLook


Jump to: General, Art, Business, Computing, Medicine, Miscellaneous, Religion, Science, Slang, Sports, Tech, Phrases 

We found 30 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word pretension:
Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "pretension" is defined.

General dictionaries General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. pretension: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
  2. pretension, pretension: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries [home, info]
  3. pretension: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  4. pretension: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
  5. pretension: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
  6. pretension: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
  7. Pretension, pretension: Wordnik [home, info]
  8. pretension: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
  9. pretension: Wiktionary [home, info]
  10. pretension: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  11. pretension: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  12. pretension: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  13. Pretension, pretension: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  14. pretension: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  15. pretension: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  16. Pretension: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  17. Pretension: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  18. pretension: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  19. pretension: Rhymezone [home, info]
  20. Pretension: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  21. pretension: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  22. pretension: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  23. pretension: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  24. pretension: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  25. pretension: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  26. pretension: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pretension: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pretension: Encyclopedia [home, info]

(Note: See pretensions for more definitions.)

Quick definitions from Macmillan (
)
American English Definition British English Definition

Provided by



Quick definitions from WordNet (pretension)

noun:  a false or unsupportable quality
noun:  the advancing of a claim ("His pretension to the crown")
noun:  the quality of being pretentious (creating a false appearance of great importance or worth)

▸ Also see pretensions

Words similar to pretension

Usage examples for pretension

Idioms related to pretension (New!)

Popular adjectives describing pretension

Words that often appear near pretension

Rhymes of pretension

Invented words related to pretension


Phrases that include pretension:   false pretension

Words similar to pretension:   pretence, pretense, pretensionless, pretentiousness, more...


Search for pretension on Google or Wikipedia


Search completed in 0.025 seconds.

Home   Reverse Dictionary / Thesaurus  Customize  Privacy   API   Spruce   Help