Antonyms for meretricious
ˌmɛr ɪˈtrɪʃ əsmere·tri·cious

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1. meretriciousadjective

   Synonyms:
   tatty, trashy, tawdry, tacky, gaudy, garish, flashy, cheap, gimcrack, brassy

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1. meretricious

   Antonyms:
   artistic, chaste, dainty, delicate, delicious, elegant, esthetic, esthetical, exquisite, fastidious, fine, nice, tasteful, tasty

   Synonyms:
   clumsy, coarse, deformed, disgusting, displeasing, distasteful, fulsome, gaudy, grotesque, harsh, hideous, horrid, inartistic, inharmonious, offensive, rough, rude, rugged, tawdry

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1. meretricious

   Antonyms:
   solid, good, chaste, simple, pure

   Synonyms:
   tricksy, unchaste, gaudy, impure, tawdry, flashy

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. meretriciousadjective

   like or relating to a prostitute

   "meretricious relationships"

   Antonyms:
   tasteful, sincere

   Synonyms:
   gilded, flashy, tawdry, cheap, specious, tacky, flash, gimcrack, tatty, garish, brassy, trashy, loud, gaudy

2. brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashyadjective

   tastelessly showy

   "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"

   Antonyms:
   sincere, tasteful

   Synonyms:
   forte, crummy, brazen, brazen-faced, chintzy, ratty, audacious, specious, loud, punk, shabby, flashy, jazzy, cheapjack, bodacious, inexpensive, tinny, bum, cheap, sleazy, trashy, brassy, insolent, gaudy, garish, tatty, shoddy, sporty, cheesy, tawdry, brasslike, moth-eaten, bald-faced, barefaced, gimcrack, chinchy, flash, showy, tacky, gilded, rubbishy

3. gilded, meretricious, speciousadjective

   based on pretense; deceptively pleasing

   "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"

   Antonyms:
   sincere, tasteful

   Synonyms:
   tawdry, flashy, garish, gilded, luxurious, gimcrack, tacky, aureate, trashy, golden, flash, spurious, sumptuous, loud, brassy, cheap, princely, specious, gold, grand, deluxe, tatty, gaudy, gilt, opulent

How to use meretricious in a sentence?

1. Frederick Douglas:

   It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.

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