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Gaudy Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Gaudy? [n] (British) a celebratory feast held annually at one of the colleges in a British university [adj] (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display [adj] tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Gaudy: brassy \| cheap \| colorful \| flash \| flashy \| garish \| gimcrack \| in poor taste(p) \| jazzy \| loud \| meretricious \| showy \| sporty \| tacky \| tasteless \| tatty \| tawdry \| trashy Related Terms \| Find terms related to Gaudy: 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 \| Gongoresque \| gorgeous \| grandiloquent \| grandiose \| grandisonant \| gross \| highfalutin \| high-flowing \| high-flown \| high-flying \| high-sounding \| honky-tonk \| inkhorn \| Johnsonian \| 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 See Also \| banquet \| feast Gaudy In Webster's Dictionary \Gaud"y\, a. [Compar. {Gaudier}; superl. {Gauidiest}.] 1. Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy. --Shak. 2. Gay; merry; festal. --Tennyson. Let's have one other gaudy night. --Shak. \Gaud"y\, n.; pl. {Gaudies} [See {Gaud}, n.] One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited. [Obs.] --Gower. \Gaud"y\, n. A feast or festival; -- called also {gaud-day} and {gaudy day}. [Oxford Univ.] --Conybeare.

Gaudy Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Gaudy?

[n] (British) a celebratory feast held annually at one of the colleges in a British university
[adj] (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display
[adj] tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"

See Also | banquet | feast

Gaudy In Webster's Dictionary

\Gaud"y\, a. [Compar. {Gaudier}; superl. {Gauidiest}.]
1. Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or
   meretricious.

         Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not
         expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy.  --Shak.

2. Gay; merry; festal. --Tennyson.

         Let's have one other gaudy night.     --Shak.


\Gaud"y\, n.; pl. {Gaudies} [See {Gaud}, n.]
One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster
is recited. [Obs.] --Gower.


\Gaud"y\, n.
A feast or festival; -- called also {gaud-day} and {gaudy
day}. [Oxford Univ.] --Conybeare.

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