Gaudy
41gaudy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. garish, showy, cheap, blatant, tawdry; gay, bright, flashy. See color, ostentation, vulgarity. Ant., plain. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. showy, flashy, tawdry; see ornate 1 , vulgar 1 . III (Roget s… …
42gaudy — gaud|y [ gɔdi ] adjective brightly colored and ugly or of bad quality ╾ gaud|i|ly adverb: a gaudily painted sign …
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44gaudy — gaud·y || gÉ”Ëdɪ adj. showy, flashy, garish; tacky; excessively colorful, overly ornamented …
45gaudy — gaudy1 adjective (gaudier, gaudiest) extravagantly or tastelessly bright or showy. Derivatives gaudily adverb gaudiness noun Origin C15: prob. from gaud + y1. gaudy2 …
46gaudy — a. Flaunting, garish, tawdry, glittering, tinsel, over decorated, flashy, showy, loud (colloq.) …
47gaudy — adj 1. garish, flashy, Sl. flash, loud, bold, painted, hard, Inf. honky tonk; tawdry, meretricious, cheap, dime store, tinselly, brummagem, gimcrack, trumpery, trashy, Inf. chintzy, Inf. tacky, Sl. rinky dink; tasteless, in bad taste, indelicate …
48gaudy — adjective Syn: garish, lurid, loud, glaring, harsh, showy, glittering, ostentatious, tasteless; informal flashy, tacky Ant: drab, tasteful …
49gaudy — [ˈgɔːdi] adj brightly coloured and ugly or of bad quality …
50gaudy — I gaud•y [[t]ˈgɔ di[/t]] adj. gaud•i•er, gaud•i•est 1) showy in a tasteless way; flashy; tawdry 2) ostentatiously ornamented; garish • Etymology: 1520–30; taken as a der. of gaud gaud′i•ly, adv. gaud′i•ness, n. II gaud•y [[t]ˈgɔ di[/t]] n. pl.… …