pretensive

adj — 2 senses

pretensive

adj

Etymology From the participle stem of Latin praetendere + -ive.

1

Archaic Pretended; feigned.

2

US Pretentious.

I used half a lifetime reading the critics, and while I found the content pretensive I found the style somehow pleasurable […].1967, Charles Bukowski, letter, in On Writing, Canongate 2016, p. 95

Derived terms: pretensively, pretensiveness

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