Synonyms for gaudy
ˈgɔ digaudy

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1. gaudy

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

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

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1. gaudy

   Synonyms:
   tawdry, fine, meretricious, bespangled, glittering, showy, gay, garish

   Antonyms:
   rich, simple, handsome, chaste

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1. gaudyadjective

   (Britain) a celebratory reunion feast or entertainment held a college

   Antonyms:
   tasteful, colourless, colorless

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"

   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, rubbishy

   Antonyms:
   colorless, colourless, tasteful

3. flashy, 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, sportsmanlike

   Antonyms:
   colourless, colorless, tasteful

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1. gaudyadjective

   Synonyms:
   showy, gay, flashy, dressy, tawdry, finical, glittering, flaunting, gairish

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1. gaudyadjective

   Synonyms:
   showy, flashy, meretricious, ostentatious, tawdry, garish

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1. List of paraphrases for "gaudy":

   flashy

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How to use gaudy in a sentence?

1. Italo Calvino:

   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.

2. William Shakespeare:

   The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea.

3. Dolly Partonhas:

   I’m most comfortable in high heels and wigs and makeup and gaudy clothes.

4. H. L. Mencken:

   ...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.

5. Henry Louis Mencken:

   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.