Difference between Pretentious and Highfalutin

PRETENTIOUS vs HIGHFALUTIN: NOUN

Making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction
Of a display that is tawdry or vulgar
Claiming that or behaving as if one is important or deserving of merit when such is not the case.
Showing or betraying an attitude of superiority.
Marked by an extravagant or presumptuous outward show; ostentatious: : showy.
Full of pretension; disposed to lay claim to more than is one's; presuming; assuming.
Marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction.
Ostentatious; intended to impress others.
(of a display) tawdry or vulgar
Intended to attract notice and impress others

Affectedly genteel
Pompous or pretentious.
Affectedly genteel; pretentious; haughty; snobbish.
Self-important, pompous; arrogant or egotistical; tending to show off or hold oneself in unduly high regard.

Pretended; unfounded; false.
Full of pretension, or claims to greater excellence or importance than the truth warrants; attempting to pass for more than the actual worth or importance; making an exaggerated outward show.

Affectedly genteel; to carry an air of affected importance; to be snobbish and haughty
Pompous; high-sounding; bombastic.

Sesquipedalian, Highfaluting, Tasteless, Parvenu, Portentous, Grandiose, Ostentatious, Kitsch, Sententious, Showy, Hifalutin, Grandiloquent, Highfalutin, Arty, Pompous

Fancy, Uppity, Pedantic, Snobbish, Snobby, Grandiloquent, Highbrow, Snooty, Pompous, La di da, Hoity toity, Grandiose, Highfaluting, Hifalutin, Pretentious

Sesquipedalian, Highfaluting, Tasteless, Parvenu, Portentous, Grandiose, Ostentatious, Kitsch, Sententious, Showy, Hifalutin, Grandiloquent, Highfalutin, Arty, Pompous

Fancy, Uppity, Pedantic, Snobbish, Snobby, Grandiloquent, Highbrow, Snooty, Pompous, La di da, Hoity toity, Grandiose, Highfaluting, Hifalutin, Pretentious

Hipster paradise and a bit pretentious, overall okay.
Help me stamp out boring, pretentious artist statements!
Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style, bombastic.
Get detailed meaning of pretentious in Hindi language.
I gotta go stop being a pretentious fuck.
Overstated language is wordy, vague, and often pretentious.
Many readers find this diction unnatural or pretentious.
What a silly little emotional and pretentious rant.
Yet every moment feels either pretentious or poky.
Caught between a pretentious, sniffy, student scene, and a pretentious, sniffy and snidey fan scene, even being myself took practice.

'When I started speaking this sonnet, it changed from something highfalutin and careful and about marriage and it became a real testament of love.'.
I was told this piece, skin on and covered in ice, was plucked from the Gulf during a highfalutin fishing charter three days before.
In this webcast, Jaime Levy, author of UX Strategy will demystify a crucial practice that up until now has been overrun by highfalutin propaganda.
Or at least, didn't seem worth writing about to the highfalutin sliver of the population that could actually write.
They take a dim view of anyone who would use a highfalutin word like ballroom.
He might not be highfalutin, but he clearly cares about his own upkeep.
Poking fun at people who use highfalutin words instead of simple ones, to make themselves look smarter.
Polonius is an attendant lord and he uses highfalutin words to make himself look smart.
But don't think these overseas excursions are highfalutin and haughty.
NLCs, then you might think these are fancy and highfalutin.