Word Meanings - TINSEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 the tinsel from the gold Dryden. 2. Something shining and gaudy; something superficially shining and showy, or having a false luster, and more gay than valuable. O happy peasant! O unhappy bard! His the mere tinsel, hers the rich reward. Cowper.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TINSEL)

• Finery
• Overornament
• tawdriness
• tinsel
• gewgaw
• trinkets
• trash
• dressiness
• bedizenment
• Showy
• Oajv gaudy
• high-colored
• gorgeous
• flashy
• Tawdry
• gaudy
• meretricious
• Theatrical
• Dramatic
• melodramatic
• showy
• ceremonious
• gesticulatory
• pompous
• Trumpery
• Trash
• nonsense
• trifles
• rubbish

Related words: (words related to TINSEL)

• 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,
• DRESSINESS
  The state of being dressy.
• GEWGAW
  A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble. A heavy gewgaw called a crown. Dryden. (more info) as OE. givegove gewgaw, apparently a reduplicated form fr. AS. gifan to give; cf. also F. joujou plaything, and E. gaud,
• TRASHILY
  In a trashy manner.
• CEREMONIOUSLY
  In a ceremonious way.
• TRASHY
  Like trash; containing much trash; waste; rejected; worthless; useless; as, a trashy novel.
• GESTICULATORY
  Representing by, or belonging to, gestures. T. Warton.
• 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
• NONSENSE
  1. That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity. 2. Trifles; things of no importance. Nonsense verses, lines made by taking any words which occur,
• 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
• FINERY
  A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling. (more info) 1. Fineness; beauty. Don't choose your place of study by the finery of the prospects. I. Watts. 2. Ornament; decoration;
• BEDIZENMENT
  That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily.
• RUBBISH
  Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; débris. What rubbish and what offal! Shak. he saw the town's one half in rubbish lie. Dryden. Rubbish
• 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
• TAWDRINESS
  Quality or state of being tawdry. A clumsy person makes his ungracefulness more ungraceful by tawdriness of dress. Richardson.
• CEREMONIOUSNESS
  The quality, or practice, of being ceremonious.
• 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.
• DRAMATIC; DRAMATICAL
  Of or pertaining to the drama; appropriate to, or having the qualities of, a drama; theatrical; vivid. The emperor . . . performed his part with much dramatic effect. Motley.
• AMPHITHEATRICALLY
  In the form or manner of an amphitheater.