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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 gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea.
I’m most comfortable in high heels and wigs and makeup and gaudy clothes.
...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.
The Vessel is like some MC Escher nightmare, the Vessel's kind of relentless. The Vessel's very gaudy, The Vessel's very cold. The Vessel's thrilling... The Vessel's not the most friendly and life-affirming and inclusive kind of space or structure. The Vessel's kind of empty. What's the point of The Vessel ? Just to walk up and walk down ?
Translations for gaudy
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- مبهرجArabic
- евтинBulgarian
- nevkusnýCzech
- prangendeDanish
- kitschig, grell, knallig, protzigGerman
- πολυτελέςGreek
- briligajEsperanto
- hortera, vistoso, vulgar, chillón, llamativo, sobrecargado, feúchoSpanish
- چشم نوازPersian
- räikeäFinnish
- criard, surfait, voyant, vulgaire, kitschFrench
- gairéadach, taibhseach, scéiniúil, spiagaíIrish
- ard-ghaaoilManx
- भड़कीलाHindi
- cifraHungarian
- chiassoso, sgargiante, vistosoItalian
- צַעֲקָנִיHebrew
- 派手, あくどい, どぎつい, けばけばしいJapanese
- luxuósimusLatin
- schreeuwlelijk, opvallend, ordinairDutch
- jarmarcznyPolish
- espalhafatosoPortuguese
- цветастый, безвкусный, кричащийRussian
- pråligSwedish
- สีสันใส่ใจThai
- jologsTagalog
- яскравий, пишнийUkrainian
- שריקעYiddish
- 花哨的Chinese
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