Gaudy \Gaud"y\, a. [Compar. Gaudier; superl. Gauidiest.]
1. Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or
meretricious.
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Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy. --Shak.
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2. Gay; merry; festal. --Tennyson.
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Let's have one other gaudy night. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Gaudy \Gaud"y\, n.; pl. Gaudies [See Gaud, n.]
One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster
is recited. [Obs.] --Gower.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Gaudy \Gaud"y\, n.
A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy
day. [Oxford Univ.] --Conybeare.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
gaudy
adj 1: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish
colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a
meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
[syn: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish,
gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty,
tawdry, trashy]
2: (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display
[syn: flashy, jazzy, showy, sporty]
n : a celebratory feast held annually at one of the colleges in
a British university
[also: gaudiest, gaudier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
127 Moby Thesaurus words for "gaudy":
Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, bedizened, beggarly,
beneath contempt, big-sounding, blatant, blinding, brazen,
brazenfaced, brummagem, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, coarse, colorful,
common, contemptible, convoluted, crass, crude, crummy,
declamatory, despicable, earthy, elevated, euphuistic, extravagant,
fake, flagrant, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flashy, flaunting,
florid, fulsome, garish, gimcrack, gimcracky, glaring, gorgeous,
grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, gross, high-flowing,
high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, honky-tonk,
inkhorn, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, loud, lurid,
magniloquent, mean, meretricious, miserable, obscene, obtrusive,
orotund, ostentatious, overbright, overdone, overelaborate,
overinvolved, overwrought, paltry, pathetic, pedantic, phony,
pitiable, pitiful, pompous, poor, pretentious, raffish, raw,
rhetorical, ribald, rough, rubbishy, rude, sad, screaming, scrubby,
scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, sensational, sensationalistic,
sententious, shabby, sham, shameless, shoddy, showy, shrieking,
sonorous, sorry, spectacular, stilted, tacky, tall, tasteless,
tatty, tawdry, tinsel, tinselly, tortuous, trashy, trumpery,
two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny,
valueless, vile, vulgar, worthless, wretched
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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