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adjective
- 1. extravagantly bright or showy, typically so as to be tasteless: "silver bows and gaudy ribbons"
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unpleasantly bright in colour or decoration: gaudy plastic flowers. Synonyms. flash UK. garish disapproving. gimcrack disapproving. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Attention-seeking, distracting and showing off. check out. chichi. dressed. exhibitionistically. flamboyance. flamboyant. flaunt. gimmickry. meretricious. negging.
Gaudy is an adjective that means "ostentatious" — in other words, flashy and in your face, and not in a good way. Someone in a gaudy outfit is probably trying too hard to be cool and stylish. Gaudy evolved from the Middle English gaud “deception, trick” in the 1520’s.
The meaning of GAUDY is ostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented. How to use gaudy in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Gaudy.
adjective. us / ˈɡɔd·i, ˈɡɑd·i / Add to word list. having too many bright colors: He was wearing a gaudy Hawaiian shirt. (Definition of gaudy from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of gaudy.
1. showy in a tasteless way; flashy; tawdry. 2. ostentatiously ornamented; garish. [1520–30; taken as a derivative of gaud] gaud′i•ly, adv.
That which is gaudy challenges the eye, as by brilliant colors or evident cost, and is not in good taste: a gaudy hat. flashy suggests insistent and vulgar display, in rather a sporty manner: a flashy necktie. garish suggests a glaring brightness, or crude vividness of color, and too much ornamentation: garish decorations. showy applies to that ...
Gaudy definition: brilliantly or excessively showy. See examples of GAUDY used in a sentence.
Noun. Filter. adjective. gaudier, gaudiest. Bright and showy, but lacking in good taste; cheaply brilliant and ornate. Webster's New World. Showy in a tasteless or vulgar way. American Heritage. Similar definitions. Twain. And then, there he was, slim and handsome, and dressed the gaudiest and prettiest you ever saw... Wiktionary. Synonyms: trashy.
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