dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/lah_MWT.json

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{
"lah-di-dah":{
"self-consciously trying to present an appearance of grandeur or importance":{
"examples":[
"there's no need to be la-di-da with your friends\u2014we all know that classy accent is a put-on"
],
"synonyms":[
"affected",
"grandiose",
"high-minded",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"ostentatious",
"pompous",
"pretentious",
"snippy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"airy",
"grandiloquent",
"high-flown",
"high-sounding",
"high-toned",
"sententious",
"arrogant",
"bumptious",
"complacent",
"conceited",
"egoistic",
"egoistical",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-handed",
"high-hat",
"hoity-toity",
"imperious",
"important",
"overweening",
"presumptuous",
"prideful",
"proud",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"self-centered",
"self-complacent",
"self-conceited",
"self-important",
"self-obsessed",
"self-pleased",
"self-satisfied",
"smug",
"uppity",
"vain",
"vainglorious",
"self-aggrandizing",
"self-dramatizing",
"self-glorifying",
"self-promoting",
"cavalier",
"disdainful",
"haughty",
"lordly",
"snobbish",
"snobby",
"stuck-up",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"confident",
"self-assured",
"self-confident",
"sure",
"boastful",
"braggart",
"bragging",
"aggressive",
"assertive",
"audacious",
"bold",
"brassy",
"cheeky",
"cocky",
"forward",
"impudent",
"insolent",
"rude",
"flamboyant",
"flashy",
"flaunting",
"garish",
"gaudy",
"glitzy",
"showy",
"splashy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demure",
"down-to-earth",
"homely",
"humble",
"lowly",
"meek",
"retiring",
"unassertive",
"unassuming",
"bashful",
"diffident",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"overmodest",
"passive",
"quiet",
"reserved",
"shy",
"timid"
],
"antonyms":[
"modest",
"unpretentious"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
}
}