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Synonyms for pageantry
ˈpædʒ ən tripageant·ry

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English Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 2 votes

  1. pageantry

    Ostentation is an ambitious showing forth of whatever is thought adapted to win admiration or praise; ostentation may be without words; as, the ostentation of wealth in fine residences, rich clothing, costly equipage, or the like; when in words, ostentation is rather in manner than in direct statement; as, the ostentation of learning. Boasting is in direct statement, and is louder and more vulgar than ostentation. There may be great display or show with little substance; ostentation suggests something substantial to be shown. Pageant, pageantry, parade, and pomp refer principally to affairs of arms or state; as, a royal pageant; a military parade. Pomp is some material demonstration of wealth and power, as in grand and stately ceremonial, rich furnishings, processions, etc., considered as worthy of the person or occasion in whose behalf it is manifested; pomp is the noble side of that which as ostentation is considered as arrogant and vain. Pageant and pageantry are inferior to pomp, denoting spectacular display designed to impress the public mind, and since the multitude is largely ignorant and thoughtless, the words pageant and pageantry have a suggestion of the transient and unsubstantial. Parade (Latin paro, prepare) is an exhibition as of troops in camp going through the evolutions that are to be used in battle, and suggests a lack of earnestness and direct or immediate occasion or demand; hence, in the more general sense, a parade is an uncalled for exhibition, and so used is a more disparaging word than ostentation; ostentation may spring merely from undue self-gratulation, parade implies a desire to impress others with a sense of one's abilities or resources, and is always offensive and somewhat contemptible; as, a parade of wealth or learning. Pomposity and pompousness are the affectation of pomp.

    Synonyms:
    boast, boasting, display, flourish, ostentation, pageant, parade, pomp, pomposity, pompousness, show, vaunt, vaunting

    Antonyms:
    diffidence, modesty, quietness, reserve, retirement, shrinking, timidity, unobtrusiveness

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. pageantry

    Synonyms:
    parade, pomp, show, splendor, magnificence

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. pageant, pageantrynoun

    a rich and spectacular ceremony

    Synonyms:
    pageant

  2. pageant, pageantrynoun

    an elaborate representation of scenes from history etc; usually involves a parade with rich costumes

    Synonyms:
    pageant

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. pageantrynoun

    Synonyms:
    show, display, parade, pomp, state, splendor, magnificence, flourish, showing off

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How to use pageantry in a sentence?

  1. Tony Muia:

    Dyker Heights is the undisputed king of Christmas pageantry in New York City, or as we like to say … fuggedaboutit.

  2. Catherine Dill:

    Just because he seems like a jolly man doesn't mean that his intentions are pure, or that he's unable to launch a missile again, a lot of the summit, even if the true intention of President Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong Un was to work towards peace at some point, there's a lot of pageantry involved. So in some sense, he was acting.

  3. Nikki Haley:

    She recognized looking back and watching some of the other ones that that's a no-win situation. You can't compete with the pageantry of the President in the halls of Congress with the vice president and speaker.

  4. Charles Haddon Spurgeon:

    If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.

  5. Abraham Denmark:

    The key lessons of Singapore are that President Trump sees tremendous value in the imagery of diplomacy and wants to be seen as a bold leader, even if the substance of the diplomacy is far behind the pageantry.


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