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Definition: Ostentatiously |
OstentatiouslyAdverb1. In an ostentatious manner; "Mr Khrushchev ostentatiously wooed and embraced Castro at the U.N. general assembly". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ostentatiously" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
Synonyms: OstentatiouslySynonyms: showily (adv), with ostentation (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ostentatiously |
| English words defined with "ostentatiously": big spender, bombastic ♦ cruise ♦ Dashy, declamatory, Displayed ♦ exhibit ♦ flash, flaunt, Flourishingly ♦ Gnat strainer ♦ high roller ♦ large, largess, largesse ♦ March ♦ orotund ♦ parade, pretty-pretty ♦ Ritz ♦ show off, showily, swank ♦ tumid, turgid ♦ Venditation ♦ with ostentation. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ostentatiously": SCIMETAR, spelling flame. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Ukraine | The 1999 elections delivered a pro-Presidential, and ostentatiously pro-reform, majority in the Rada (parliament), ending temporarily the parliamentary blockade which had stalled reform for most of the 1990s. A reform-orientated government quickly improved cash collections and transparency in the notoriously corrupt energy sector. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SCIMETAR, n. A curved sword of exceeding keenness, in the conduct of which certain Orientals attain a surprising proficiency, as the incident here related will serve to show. The account is translated from the Japanese by Shusi Itama, a famous writer of the thirteenth century. When the great Gichi-Kuktai was Mikado he condemned to decapitation Jijiji Ri, a high officer of the Court. Soon after the hour appointed for performance of the rite what was his Majesty's surprise to see calmly approaching the throne the man who should have been at that time ten minutes dead! "Seventeen hundred impossible dragons!" shouted the enraged monarch. "Did I not sentence you to stand in the market-place and have your head struck off by the public executioner at three o'clock? And is it not now 3:10?" "Son of a thousand illustrious deities," answered the condemned minister, "all that you say is so true that the truth is a lie in comparison. But your heavenly Majesty's sunny and vitalizing wishes have been pestilently disregarded. With joy I ran and placed my unworthy body in the market-place. The executioner appeared with his bare scimetar, ostentatiously whirled it in air, and then, tapping me lightly upon the neck, strode away, pelted by the populace, with whom I was ever a favorite. I am come to pray for justice upon his own dishonorable and treasonous head." "To what regiment of executioners does the black-boweled caitiff belong?" asked the Mikado. "To the gallant Ninety-eight Hundred and Thirty-seventh -- I know the man. His name is Sakko-Samshi." "Let him be brought before me," said the Mikado to an attendant, and a half-hour later the culprit stood in the Presence. "Thou bastard son of a three-legged hunchback without thumbs!" roared the sovereign -- "why didst thou but lightly tap the neck that it should have been thy pleasure to sever?" "Lord of Cranes of Cherry Blooms," replied the executioner, unmoved, "command him to blow his nose with his fingers." Being commanded, Jijiji Ri laid hold of his nose and trumpeted like an elephant, all expecting to see the severed head flung violently from him. Nothing occurred: the performance prospered peacefully to the close, without incident. All eyes were now turned on the executioner, who had grown as white as the snows on the summit of Fujiama. His legs trembled and his breath came in gasps of terror. "Several kinds of spike-tailed brass lions!" he cried; "I am a ruined and disgraced swordsman! I struck the villain feebly because in flourishing the scimetar I had accidentally passed it through my own neck! Father of the Moon, I resign my office." So saying, he gasped his top-knot, lifted off his head, and advancing to the throne laid it humbly at the Mikado's feet. |
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| "Ostentatiously" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ostentatiously" is used about 69 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 69 | 40,280 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "ostentatiously"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Czech | okázale. (various references) | |
German | prahlerische (vaingloriously). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kirívóan (flagrantly), kérkedően, hivalkodóan, feltűnően (conspicuously, garishly, markedly, strikingly). (various references) | |
Italian | ostentatamente. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 此れ見よがしに (for show). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | "れみよがしに (for show). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ostentatiouslyay.(various references) | |
Thai | อย่างโอ้อว". (various references) | |
Ukrainian | умисне, хвастовито (bigly). (various references) | |
Welsh | rhodresa (behave ostentatiously). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "ostentatiously": unostentatiously. (additional references) | |
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"Ostentatiously" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: astentatiously, obstentatiously, ostentasiously, ostentationsly, ostentatiosly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ostentatiously" (pronounced Ä'stuntā"shuslē) |
| 6 | -ā" sh u s l ē | fallaciously, graciously, hellaciously, tenaciously. |
| 5 | -sh u s l ē | ambitiously, anxiously, capriciously, cautiously, consciously, deliciously, judiciously, expeditiously, facetiously, ferociously, maliciously, subconsciously, surreptitiously, suspiciously, unconsciously, viciously. |
| 4 | -u s l ē | aimlessly, anonymously, assiduously, autonomously, breathlessly, callously, carelessly, ceaselessly, conscientiously, conspicuously, contemporaneously, contemptuously, continuously, courageously, curiously, dangerously, disastrously, jealously, laboriously, effortlessly, egregiously, endlessly, enormously, enviously, erroneously, fabulously, famously, flawlessly, frivolously, fruitlessly, furiously, generously, gloriously, gratuitously, grievously, harmlessly, harmoniously, helplessly, hideously, hilariously, hopelessly, horrendously, humorously, incongruously, indigenously, ingeniously, instantaneously, intravenously, listlessly, ludicrously, marvelously, mercilessly, meticulously, mindlessly, miraculously, mysteriously, needlessly, nervously, notoriously, obviously, ominously, outrageously, painlessly, perilously, piously, posthumously, precariously, precipitously, previously, prodigiously, purposely, recklessly, relentlessly, religiously, restlessly, ridiculously, righteously, rigorously, ruthlessly, scrupulously, seamlessly, seriously, shamelessly, simultaneously, spontaneously, strenuously, studiously, synonymously, tediously, tirelessly, tremendously, tremulously, unambiguously, unanimously, unceremoniously, variously, vicariously, vigorously, vociferously, zealously. |
| 3 | -s l ē | adversely, closely, concisely, conversely, densely, expressly, falsely, fiercely, grossly, immensely, intensely, inversely, loosely, nicely, parsley, perversely, precisely, princely, profusely, scarcely, sparsely, tensely, tersely, thusly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-n-o-o-s-s-t-t-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: ostentatious. | |
-3 letters: outstations. | |
-4 letters: outstation, sensuality. | |
-5 letters: auntliest, autolyses, autolysis, insolates, insulates, lutanists, lutenists, oilstones, ostinatos, outstates, siltstone, sluttiest, snootiest, snottiest, snoutiest, solations, solutions, sostenuti, sostenuto, stilettos, taintless, tattiness, toastiest, totalises, totalists. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-n-o-o-s-s-t-t-t-u-y" | |
+2 letters: unostentatiously. | |
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