Adjective. Pretentious refers to a person or entity who carries an aura of pretense to everything they say and do. It's as though they're trying to milk every factoid or article they read, working them into conversations and social media updates, to portray themselves as godly or intelligent, or sometimes just plain superior. Because this is the ever-present pretense behind all their words and actions, conversation with them is limited only to: placating agreement to everything they say, or walking away before you lose your temper.
That pretentious guy who figured out how to tie his shoes before being taught, and thus feels he deserves a 50/50 stake in the creation of shoes: I believe Rick and Morty is a post-modernist, deconstruction critique of the bourgeois view on LiMiTeD uniVerSEs.
His imaginary best friend: That's so true.
His imaginary best friend: That's so true.
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by mike July 19, 2004
Get the pretentious loser mug.A person who is commonly classified as a non-smoking, bicycle riding, music listening hipster. A person of this definition generally passes judgment on others taste in music, art and culture. They will often be seen in the local café, sneering at you from behind ceramic coffee mugs. Known for soul-shattering awesomeness, a Mr./Miss Pretentious produces uncontrollable madness and jealously in others.
Ok ok, Mr./Miss Pretentious. wah wah wah. (example of intellectual hooliganism that causes a common response in those less facilitated in the understanding of music)
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Get the Mr./Miss Pretentious mug.oh man... OH MAN! whoever wrote that definition before me. THAT is pretentious hipster talk. Normal hipsters can be alright, but what makes a pretentious hipster different is that they are pretentious as fuck. Pretentious hipsters don't look for new information out of boredom like normal people. To a pretentious hipster, information is something to win arguments with. A way to be the smartest guy in the room. A pretentious hipster is the kind of person who wore his beliefs on his sleeve in highschool. The kind of person who vomits them everywhere at parties, often with an acoustic guitar close at hand. A pretentious hipster cleans his asshole out in public, if you know what I mean. They are the people that drove Kerouac to drink himself to death.
Pretentious Hipster man: "I SO intellectually dominated that guy at borders. As if he knew anything about Faulkner. GOD! it was like something out of a Wes Anderson movie!"
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