Fastuous meaning

Adjective: fastuous

Pronunciation: (fas-choo-us)

Fastuous meaning:

• Proud; haughty; disdainful; arrogant
• Ostentatious or very showy.

Synonyms: ostentatious, haughty, disdainful, scornful

Related terms: fastuousness

Quotations: Loren Berengere – It’s not fastuous, not circuitous, and not hotchpotch. It’s all the result of a synthesis of what I take John Dewey to be saying on a particular point which may or may not have ever crossed his mind, what is necessary and proper for an old guard.

Immanuel Kant – The fastuous is a proud man, who is at the same time vain. But the applause, which he seeks from others , consists in homage. Hence he willingly glitters by titles, genealogical registers or trees of pedigrees, and pageantry.

David Olsen – As his supervisor got increasingly bossy and meddlesome, Paul began to describe him as fastuous.

Sample sentences:

1. The day following this fastuous meal was very bad.
2. I believe that haughty and fastuous signify pride as well as haughty is from the French and indicates height.
3. Despite her beauty, jenny rarely got asked out, due to her fastuous behaviour.
4. Fastuous and beautiful monumental buildings depict the way human beings projected their hopes.
5. He was too fastuous and serious in reforming the lives of people from his village.
6. The term fastuous is used very little and the search tendency is also very less.
7. Last weekend we have attended a lavish and fastuous ceremony in Hyderabad.
8. The people of this country live a fastuous life and wear costly clothes.
9. He is more fastuous than his brother. His brother is way better than him in all aspects.
10. That company has constructed many fastuous buildings in the city nearby.