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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?
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 ?
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 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.
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.
...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.
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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