It's Marian Webster's Word of the Day for August 18th.
Today's word is ostentatious, spelled O-S-T-E-N-T-A-T-I-O-U-S.
Ostentatious is an adjective.
It describes someone or something that displays wealth, knowledge,
or power in a way that is meant to attract attention, admiration, or envy.
things that are ostentatious tend to stand out as overly elaborate or conspicuous here's the word used in a sentence from the independent valentino presented a dizzying display at paris haute couture week fusing the past and present in theatrical ostentatious designs Both ostentatious and the related noun ostentation can be traced to the Latin verb ostentare,
meaning to display, and the idea of display persists in the English word's current use.
People and things described as ostentatious seem to be practically begging to be looked at.
Ostentatious is often applied to objects and buildings that can also be described as luxurious,
flashy jewelry, mansions, edifices with marble columns.
Someone with an ostentatious lifestyle spends money in a way that makes it obvious that they have a lot of it.
When used in negative constructions, as in, the house is large but not ostentatious,
the implication is that display isn't the point.
With your Word of the Day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.