Stick to jackets that aren't too gaudy.
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Gaudy
//ˈɡɔ.di//
Synonyms for "gaudy" (195 found)
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89 translations across 26 languages.
Azerbaijani
2 entries- səliqəsiz adj (very showy or ornamented)
- zövqsüz adj (very showy or ornamented)
Bulgarian
3 entries- безвкусен adj (very showy or ornamented)
- крещящ adj (very showy or ornamented)
- ярък adj (very showy or ornamented)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 俗艷 /俗艳 adj (very showy or ornamented)
- 俗麗 /俗丽 adj (very showy or ornamented)
- 花俏 adj (very showy or ornamented)
- 花哨 adj (very showy or ornamented)
Czech
3 entries- křiklavý adj (very showy or ornamented)
- nevkusný adj (very showy or ornamented)
- nápadný adj (very showy or ornamented)
Dutch
4 entries- bont adj (very showy or ornamented)
- opvallend adj (very showy or ornamented)
- opzichtig adj (very showy or ornamented)
- ordinair adj (very showy or ornamented)
Esperanto
1 entries- malŝika adj (very showy or ornamented)
Finnish
2 entries- kruusattu adj (very showy or ornamented)
- pramea adj (very showy or ornamented)
French
4 entries- criard adj (very showy or ornamented)
- kitsch adj (very showy or ornamented)
- surfait adj (very showy or ornamented)
- voyant adj (very showy or ornamented)
Galician
2 entries- chamativo adj (very showy or ornamented)
- charro adj (very showy or ornamented)
Georgian
3 entries- მყვირალა adj (very showy or ornamented)
- უგემოვნო adj (very showy or ornamented)
- ფერადოვანი adj (very showy or ornamented)
German
4 entries- aufgetakelt adj (very showy or ornamented)
- aufsehenerregend adj (very showy or ornamented)
- farbenprächtig adj (very showy or ornamented)
- grell adj (very showy or ornamented)
Hungarian
4 entries- cifra adj (very showy or ornamented)
- csicsás adj (very showy or ornamented)
- csiricsáré adj (very showy or ornamented)
- feltűnő adj (very showy or ornamented)
Irish
4 entries- gairéadach adj (very showy or ornamented)
- mórthaibhseach adj (very showy or ornamented)
- scéiniúil adj (very showy or ornamented)
- spiagaí adj (very showy or ornamented)
Italian
4 entries- appariscente adj (very showy or ornamented)
- chiassoso adj (very showy or ornamented)
- pacchiano adj (very showy or ornamented)
- sgargiante adj (very showy or ornamented)
Japanese
4 entries- あくどい adj (very showy or ornamented)
- けばけばしい adj (very showy or ornamented)
- どぎつい adj (very showy or ornamented)
- 派手な adj (very showy or ornamented)
Manx
1 entries- ard-ghaaoil adj (very showy or ornamented)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- bunt adj (very showy or ornamented)
Polish
1 entries- jarmarczny adj (very showy or ornamented)
Portuguese
3 entries- chamativo adj (very showy or ornamented)
- espalhafatoso adj (very showy or ornamented)
- vistoso adj (very showy or ornamented)
Romanian
3 entries- kitsch adj (very showy or ornamented)
- împopoțonat adj (very showy or ornamented)
- înzorzonat adj (very showy or ornamented)
Russian
4 entries- аляпова́тый adj (very showy or ornamented)
- безвку́сный adj (very showy or ornamented)
- крича́щий adj (very showy or ornamented)
- цвета́стый adj (very showy or ornamented)
Spanish
4 entries- chillón adj (very showy or ornamented)
- feúcho adj (very showy or ornamented)
- hortera adj (very showy or ornamented)
- llamativo adj (very showy or ornamented)
Swedish
1 entries- prålig adj (very showy or ornamented)
Tagalog
1 entries- jologs adj (very showy or ornamented)
Tibetan
1 entries- ཧར་པོ adj (very showy or ornamented)
Turkish
3 entries- cicili bicili adj (very showy or ornamented)
- şatafatlı adj (very showy or ornamented)
- şinanay adj (very showy or ornamented)
Sample sentences
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He slipped the gaudy shirt on.
Source: tatoeba (290502)
Don't you think that necklace is a bit gaudy?
Source: tatoeba (9517339)
The outdoor market should be packed, but just a few people have braved a hot sun to haggle over flat-screen TVs and gaudy rugs trucked over from Libya, just 30 kilometers away.
Source: tatoeba (11048488)
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