pretentious

Meaning

Adjective

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Origin

  • From French prétentieux, from prétention, from Latin praetēnsus, past participle of praetendō.
  • Note that pretentious is spelled with a ‘t’, unlike related pretense, pretension. This is due to the French spelling: *-sious does not occur as an English suffix, though -sion and -tion both do.

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