'Gilded' definitions:
Definition of 'gilded'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet" [syn: aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden]
adjective
Based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument" [syn: gilded, meretricious, specious]
adjective
Rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded dining rooms" [syn: deluxe, gilded, grand, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous]
adjective
Definition of 'Gilded'
From: GCIDE
- Gild \Gild\ (g[i^]ld), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gilded or Gilt (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gilding.] [AS. gyldan, from gold gold. [root]234. See Gold.]
- 1. To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold. "Gilded chariots." --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- No more the rising sun shall gild the morn. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten. [1913 Webster]
- Let oft good humor, mild and gay, Gild the calm evening of your day. --Trumbull. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To make red with drinking. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- This grand liquior that hath gilded them. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'gilded'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- apparent,
- aureate,
- auric,
- beige,
- buff,
- buff-yellow,
- canary,
- canary-yellow,
- citron,
- citron-yellow,
- colorable,
- colored,
- cream,
- creamy,
- ecru,
- fallow,
- flaxen,
- gilt,
- gold,
- gold-colored,
- golden,
- lemon,
- lemon-yellow,
- luteolous,
- lutescent,
- meretricious,
- ocherish,
- ocherous,
- ochery,
- ochreous,
- ochroid,
- ochrous,
- ochry,
- or,
- ostensible,
- plausible,
- primrose,
- primrose-colored,
- primrose-yellow,
- saffron,
- saffron-colored,
- saffron-yellow,
- sallow,
- sand-colored,
- sandy,
- seeming,
- specious,
- straw,
- straw-colored,
- tinsel,
- xanthic,
- xanthous,
- yellow,
- yellowish