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Synonyms for gaudy
ˈgɔ digaudy
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
gaudy
Synonyms:
clumsy, coarse, deformed, disgusting, displeasing, distasteful, fulsome, grotesque, harsh, hideous, horrid, inartistic, inharmonious, meretricious, offensive, rough, rude, rugged, tawdryAntonyms:
artistic, chaste, dainty, delicate, delicious, elegant, esthetic, esthetical, exquisite, fastidious, fine, nice, tasteful, tasty
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
gaudy
Synonyms:
tawdry, fine, meretricious, bespangled, glittering, showy, gay, garish
Princeton's WordNet
gaudyadjective
(Britain) a celebratory reunion feast or entertainment held a college
Antonyms:
tasteful, colourless, colorlessbrassy, 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"
Synonyms:
forte, crummy, brazen, brazen-faced, chintzy, ratty, audacious, specious, loud, punk, shabby, flashy, meretricious, jazzy, cheapjack, bodacious, inexpensive, tinny, bum, cheap, sleazy, trashy, brassy, insolent, garish, tatty, shoddy, sporty, cheesy, tawdry, brasslike, moth-eaten, bald-faced, barefaced, gimcrack, chinchy, flash, showy, tacky, gilded, rubbishyAntonyms:
colorless, colourless, tastefulflashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, sportyadjective
(used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display
Synonyms:
flashy, splashy, trashy, sporting, clean, meretricious, tacky, gimcrack, loud, garish, sporty, flamboyant, glossy, brassy, cheap, showy, tawdry, jazzy, flash, tatty, sportsmanlikeAntonyms:
colourless, colorless, tasteful
Dictionary of English Synonymes
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
gaudyadjective
Synonyms:
showy, flashy, meretricious, ostentatious, tawdry, garish
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "gaudy":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#456 | gay | |
#827 | cheap | |
#1114 | fine | |
#1174 | flash | |
#1809 | clean | |
#3150 | sporting | |
#5312 | punk | |
#5548 | rough | |
#6274 | offensive | |
#6888 | loud | |
#9817 | inexpensive | |
#11437 | harsh | |
#12142 | rugged | |
#12199 | rude | |
#13717 | glossy | |
#14475 | coarse | |
#18726 | forte | |
#20585 | bum | |
#20982 | trashy | |
#21931 | disgusting | |
#23717 | sporty | |
#24752 | cheesy | |
#25249 | shabby | |
#28776 | clumsy | |
#28916 | jazzy | |
#30944 | deformed | |
#30977 | hideous | |
#31555 | glittering | |
#33159 | sleazy | |
#33469 | flashy | |
#34679 | gilded | |
#36903 | grotesque | |
#37348 | horrid | |
#38672 | tacky | |
#44447 | brazen | |
#47898 | flamboyant | |
#51684 | audacious | |
#51821 | shoddy | |
#53694 | showy | |
#56411 | distasteful | |
#59182 | gaudy | |
#70480 | insolent | |
#71862 | specious | |
#73054 | crummy | |
#77475 | tinny | |
#79242 | garish | |
#79400 | ratty | |
#85672 | tatty | |
#96968 | brassy | |
#98669 | bodacious | |
#100861 | tawdry | |
#101092 | splashy | |
#142674 | displeasing | |
#162489 | fulsome | |
#193434 | chintzy | |
#209600 | meretricious | |
#271082 | sportsmanlike | |
#277340 | barefaced | |
#294990 | inharmonious |
How to use gaudy in a sentence?
I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.
The desire to be' accurate' suddenly disappears when sex isn't involved and it is actual interesting day to day minutiae, if the(' Game of Thrones') world was historically accurate, why isn't every single noble house or castle absolutely covered by huge gaudy, colourful murals ? Why is it that this form of historical accuracy isn't important, but showing rape as endemic is ?
I’m most comfortable in high heels and wigs and makeup and gaudy clothes.
Beware Of entrance to a quarrel but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy rich, not gaudy For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition.
Translations for gaudy
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- евтинBulgarian
- nevkusnýCzech
- kitschig, protzig, knallig, grellGerman
- chillón, vistoso, vulgar, sobrecargado, feúcho, llamativo, horteraSpanish
- criard, voyant, surfait, kitsch, vulgaireFrench
- taibhseach, spiagaí, scéiniúil, gairéadachIrish
- ard-ghaaoilManx
- भड़कीलाHindi
- cifraHungarian
- vistoso, chiassoso, sgargianteItalian
- צַעֲקָנִיHebrew
- 派手, あくどい, どぎつい, けばけばしいJapanese
- schreeuwlelijk, opvallend, ordinairDutch
- jarmarcznyPolish
- espalhafatosoPortuguese
- цветастый, безвкусный, кричащийRussian
- jologsTagalog
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