Word Meanings - GAUDY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GAUDY)

• Bedizen
• Tawdry
• gaudy
• flashy
• bespangled
• Flaring
• Flaming
• glaring
• conspicuous
• bright
• over-colored
• flaunting
• showy
• tawdry
• ostentatious
• Meretricious
• Tricksy
• unchaste
• impure
• Showy
• Oajv gaudy
• high-colored
• gorgeous
• tinsel
• meretricious

Related words: (words related to GAUDY)

• BRIGHT
  See I
• FLARE-UP
  A sudden burst of anger or passion; an angry dispute.
• GORGEOUS
  Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak. -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n. (more info) luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff,
• FLAMINEOUS
  Pertaining to a flamen; flaminical.
• FLARING
  1. That flares; flaming or blazing unsteadily; shining out with a dazzling light. His flaring beams. Milton. 2. Opening or speading outwards.
• CONSPICUOUS
  1. Open to the view; obvious to the eye; easy to be seen; plainly visible; manifest; attracting the eye. It was a rock Of alabaster, piled up to the clouds, Conspicious far. Milton. Conspicious by her veil and hood, Signing the cross, the abbess
• FLAMINICAL
  Pertaining to a flamen. Milton.
• FLAMMIFEROUS
  Producing flame.
• FLAMING
  1. Emitting flames; afire; blazing; consuming; illuminating. 2. Of the color of flame; high-colored; brilliant; dazzling. "In flaming yellow bright." Prior. 3. Ardent; passionate; burning with zeal; irrepressibly earnest; as, a flaming proclomation
• GLARE
  1. To shine with a bright, dazzling light. The cavern glares with new-admitted light. Dryden. 2. To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely. And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon. Byron. 3. To be bright and
• FLAMBOYER
  A name given in the East and West Indies to certain trees with brilliant blossoms, probably species of Cæsalpinia.
• FLAUNTINGLY
  In a flaunting way.
• GLAREOUS
  Glairy. John Georgy .
• MERETRICIOUS
  prostitute, lit., one who earns money, i. e., by prostitution, fr. 1. Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic. 2. Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully
• FLAUNT
  To throw or spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously; as, a flaunting show. You flaunt about the streets in your new gilt chariot. Arbuthnot. One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade. Pope.
• FLAMELET
  A small flame. The flamelets gleamed and flickered. Longfellow.
• BEDIZEN
  To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste. Remnants of tapestried hangings, . . . and shreds of pictures with which he had bedizened his tatters. Sir W. Scott.
• BRIGHTSOME
  Bright; clear; luminous; brilliant. Marlowe.
• BESPANGLE
  To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering. The grass . . . is all bespangled with dewdrops. Cowper.
• IMPURE
  Not purified according to the ceremonial law of Moses; unclean. (more info) 1. Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water
• BURGLARIOUSLY
  With an intent to commit burglary; in the manner of a burglar. Blackstone.
• INFLAMER
  The person or thing that inflames. Addison.
• DISINFLAME
  To divest of flame or ardor. Chapman.
• INFLAMED
  Represented as burning, or as adorned with tongues of flame. (more info) 1. Set on fire; enkindled; heated; congested; provoked; exasperated.
• BURGLAR
  One guilty of the crime of burglary. Burglar alarm, a device for giving alarm if a door or window is opened from without. (more info) German origin) + OF. lere thief, fr. L. latro. See Borough, and
• EMBRIGHT
  To brighten.
• INFLAMMABILLTY
  Susceptibility of taking fire readily; the state or quality of being inflammable.
• BURGLARY
  Breaking and entering the dwelling house of another, in the nighttime, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felonious purpose be accomplished or not. Wharton. Burrill. Note: By statute law in some of the United States, burglary