'Gaudy' definitions:
Definition of 'gaudy'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy]
adjective
(used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display [syn: flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, sporty]
noun
(Britain) a celebratory reunion feast or entertainment held a college
Definition of 'Gaudy'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Gaudy'
From: GCIDE
- Gaudy \Gaud"y\, n. A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and {gaudy day}. [Oxford Univ.] --Conybeare. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Gaudy'
From: GCIDE
- Gaudy \Gaud"y\, a. [Compar. Gaudier; superl. Gauidiest.]
- 1. Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious. [1913 Webster]
- Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Gay; merry; festal. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- Let's have one other gaudy night. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'gaudy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affected,
- bedizened,
- beggarly,
- beneath contempt,
- big-sounding,
- blatant,
- blinding,
- brazen,
- brazenfaced,
- brummagem,
- cheap,
- cheesy,
- chintzy,
- coarse,
- colorful,
- common,
- contemptible,
- convoluted,
- crass,
- crude,
- crummy,
- declamatory,
- despicable,
- earthy,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- extravagant,
- fake,
- flagrant,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flaring,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- florid,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- glaring,
- Gongoresque,
- gorgeous,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- gross,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- honky-tonk,
- inkhorn,
- Johnsonian,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- loud,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- mean,
- meretricious,
- miserable,
- obscene,
- obtrusive,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overbright,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- paltry,
- pathetic,
- pedantic,
- phony,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- pompous,
- poor,
- pretentious,
- raffish,
- raw,
- rhetorical,
- ribald,
- rough,
- rubbishy,
- rude,
- sad,
- screaming,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- scuzzy,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- shabby,
- sham,
- shameless,
- shoddy,
- showy,
- shrieking,
- sonorous,
- sorry,
- spectacular,
- stilted,
- tacky,
- tall,
- tasteless,
- tatty,
- tawdry,
- tinsel,
- tinselly,
- tortuous,
- trashy,
- trumpery,
- two-for-a-cent,
- two-for-a-penny,
- twopenny,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- valueless,
- vile,
- vulgar,
- worthless,
- wretched