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Thanks for a thorough explanation and background! I used Urban Dictionary for "pretentious" due to the OP explicitly referring to it to understand the meaning

by tauntz 5y ago

Thanks for a thorough explanation and background! I used Urban Dictionary for "pretentious" due to the OP explicitly referring to it to understand the meaning of woke. But this got me intrigued now :) I still can't think of a phrase or word in Estonian that would convey the same (or even similar) meaning. I searched through a couple of dictionaries now and the translations provided there are really not useful. They mean either "complains a lot" or alternatively "has unreasonably high standards / is high maintenance", "braggy" and "pedantic". And these doesn't sound even remotely close to the English explanation of the word.. at all. Any fellow Estonians wanna help me out here - is there a phrase or word that would capture the essence of "pretentious" in Estonian? :)

shkkmo 5y ago
"Braggy" and "pedantic" do share some meaning/conotation overlap with "pretentious" but I don't think "complains a lot" or "has unreasonably high standards" really overlap (though terms for those may in Estonianl. Another English word that is very similar in meaning is "ostentatious". If I had to write out my own definition of "pretentious" it would be: Pretending to be higher class, more refined, more educated or more moral than you actually are and implying that makes you superior to other people.