Word Meanings - HIGH-COLORED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Having a strong, deep, or glaring color; flushed. Shak. 2. Vivid; strong or forcible in representation; hence, exaggerated; as, high-colored description.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HIGH-COLORED)

• Showy
• Oajv gaudy
• high-colored
• gorgeous
• flashy
• tinsel

Related words: (words related to HIGH-COLORED)

• 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,
• FLASHY
  1. Dazzling for a moment; making a momentary show of brilliancy; transitorily bright. A little flashy and transient pleasure. Barrow. 2. Fiery; vehement; impetuous. A temper always flashy. Burke. 3. Showy; gay; gaudy; as, a flashy dress. 4. Without
• GAUDYGREEN
  Light green. Chaucer. Spenser.
• GAUDY
  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.
• TINSEL
  1. A shining material used for ornamental purposes; especially, a very thin, gauzelike cloth with much gold or silver woven into it; also, very thin metal overlaid with a thin coating of gold or silver, brass foil, or the like. Who can discern
• SHOWY
  , a. Etym:
• HIGH-COLORED
  1. Having a strong, deep, or glaring color; flushed. Shak. 2. Vivid; strong or forcible in representation; hence, exaggerated; as, high-colored description.
• TINSELLY
  Like tinsel; gaudy; showy, but cheap.