Word Meanings - MERETRICIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 ornamental; tawdry; as, meretricious dress or ornaments. -- Mer`e*tri"cious*ly, adv. -- Mer`e*tri"cious*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MERETRICIOUS)

• Florid
• Rubicund
• flowery
• sanguine
• ornate
• overwrought
• meretricious
• Gaudy
• Tawdry
• fine
• bespangled
• glittering
• showy
• gay
• garish
• Showy
• flashy
• tinsel
• gaudy
• Theatrical
• Dramatic
• melodramatic
• ceremonious
• gesticulatory
• pompous

Related words: (words related to MERETRICIOUS)

• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• FLOWERY
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
• FLORIDA BEAN
  The large, roundish, flattened seed of Mucuna urens. See under Bean. One of the very large seeds of the Entada scandens.
• TAWDRY
  A necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St. Audrey's fair; hence, a necklace in general. Of which the Naiads and the blue Nereids make Them tawdries for their necks. Drayton.
• CEREMONIOUSLY
  In a ceremonious way.
• FLORIDNESS
  The quality of being florid. Boyle.
• GESTICULATORY
  Representing by, or belonging to, gestures. T. Warton.
• SANGUINENESS
  The quality of being sanguine.
• ORNATE
  1. Adorned; decorated; beautiful. "So bedecked, ornate, and gay." Milton. 2. Finely finished, as a style of composition. A graceful and ornate rhetoric. Milton.
• SANGUINELESS
  Destitute of blood; pale.
• SANGUINE
  1. Having the color of blood; red. Of his complexion he was sanguine. Chaucer. Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe. Milton. 2. Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood; as, a sanguine bodily temperament.
• FLORIDITY
  The quality of being florid; floridness. Floyer.
• POMPOUS
  1. Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession. 2. Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style. "Pompous in high presumption." Chaucer. he pompous vanity of the
• 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
• THEATRICAL
  Of or pertaining to a theater, or to the scenic representations; resembling the manner of dramatic performers; histrionic; hence, artificial; as, theatrical performances; theatrical gestures. -- The*at`ri*cal"i*ty, n. -- The*at"ric*al*ly, adv. No
• GLITTER
  A bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage. Milton.
• BESPANGLE
  To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering. The grass . . . is all bespangled with dewdrops. Cowper.
• GARISH
  1. Showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting attention. "The garish sun." "A garish flag." Shak. "In . . . garish colors." Asham. "The garish day." J. H. Newman. Garish like the laughters of drunkenness. Jer. Taylor. 2. Gay
• FLORIDLY
  In a florid manner.
• FLORID
  Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations. (more info) 1. Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery. Fruit from a pleasant and florid tree.
• CONSANGUINED
  Of kin blood; related. Johnson.
• AMPHITHEATRICALLY
  In the form or manner of an amphitheater.
• EXSANGUINEOUS
  Destitute of blood; anæmic; exsanguious.
• AGLITTER
  Clittering; in a glitter.