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mahtaileva — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • flamboyant adjective Bold, showy, and confident in style or behavior, often to draw attention.
  • grandiose adj Extremely ambitious or impressive in scale.
  • haughty adj Acting as if one is better than others; arrogantly proud and disdainful.
  • ostentatious adj Showy or over-the-top, designed mainly to impress or attract attention.
  • pretentious adj Trying too hard to seem impressive, intelligent, or important, in a way that comes across as fake or overblown.

Senses

mahtaileva is used for these senses in English:

  • flamboyant Showy, bold or audacious in behaviour, appearance, style, etc.; ostentatious.
  • flamboyant (architecture) Referring to the final stage of French Gothic architecture from the 14th to the 16th centuries.
  • grandiose Pompous or pretentious.
  • haughty Conveying in demeanour the assumption of superiority; disdainful, supercilious.
  • ostentatious Of ostentation.
  • pretentious Marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction.

grandiose — full definition

  1. adj Extremely ambitious or impressive in scale.
  2. adj Pompous or overblown, more showy than genuinely impressive.

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