Gaudy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Showy in a tasteless or vulgar way.
  • n. Chiefly British A feast, especially an annual university dinner.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner
  • n. A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally held during the summer vacations.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious.
  • adj. Gay; merry; festal.
  • n. One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.
  • n. A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Joyful; merry; festive.
  • Brilliantly fine or gay; bright; garish.
  • Showy without taste; vulgarly gay or splendid; flashy.
  • Synonyms Flaunting, glittering; garish, flashy, dressy, finical. See tawdry.
  • n. A feast or festival; an entertainment; a treat.
  • n. Gaiety; gaudiness.
  • n. One of the beads in the rosary marking the five joyful mysteries, or five joys of the Virgin. See rosary. Also gaud.
  • n. One of the tapers burnt, in commemoration of the five joyful mysteries, by the image, on the altar, or in a chapel of the Virgin, during masses, antiphons, and hymns in her honor.
  • To deck with ostentatious finery; bedizen.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (Britain) a celebratory reunion feast or entertainment held a college
  • adj. (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display
  • adj. tastelessly showy
  • Equivalent
    colourful    colorful    tasteless   
    Antonym
    simple    modest   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    feast    banquet   
    Variant
    gaudier    gaudiest    gaud-day    gaudy day   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    showy    gay    merry    festal    tawdry    tinsel    garish    flashy    gimcrack    brummagem   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Saudi    bawdy    dawdy   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    gorgeous    colorful    garish    scarlet    showy    costly    tattered    tawdry    ornate    sumptuous