What does prætentious mean?

prætentious

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"Poa Secunda and John Secada don’t play bluegrass; and I’m not prætentious enough to pretend I can identify Kentucky Bluegrass, although there was a band by that name (Poa Prætensis) in the mid-‛70s."
"Guess I was just being prætentious in my spelling. }->"
"It’s praetentious."

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