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. Eleanor Janega:

   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 ?

2. 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.

3. William Shakespeare:

   Beware Of entrance to a quarrel but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy rich, not gaudy For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

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. William Shakespeare:

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