Gaudy

/ˈɡɔ.di/

Synonyms for "gaudy" (280 found)

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Closest matches (56)

Adjective(12 words)

flashy garish loud showy tacky brassier brassiest brassy cheapcolorful graphicsconspicuous dandier

affected banquet barbaric bedizened beggarlybeneath contemptbig-sounding blatant blinding brazen brazenfaced brummagem cheap cheesy chintzy coarse colorful common conspicuous contemptible

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convoluted crass crude crummy declamatory despicable

Noun(8 words)

baroque bedazzling bigwigs bling bouffants camp carnival daredevil

Verb(1 words)

bedecked

Adjective(9 words)

bedizened blatant blingish brash catchpenny chichi chintzy crass crude

Strong matches (84)

Verb(5 words)

disporting flashed flaunted flossed glittered

Adjective(19 words)

downmarketdressy patternexcessive decorationexhibitlike exuberant flash flashier flashiest flaunty fulgent gaudiest gimcrack glittery glitziest glitzy highfaluting jazziest jazzy kitschy

earthy elevated euphuistic extravagant fake flagrant flamboyant flaming flaring flashy flaunting florid fulsome garish gimcrack gimcracky glaring gongoresque gorgeous grand

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grandiloquent grandiose grandisonant grosshigh flownhigh flyinghigh soundinghigh-flowing high-flown high-flying high-sounding highfalutin honky-tonk inkhorn johnsonian labyrinthine lexiphanic lofty loud lurid luxuriant magniloquent mean meretricious

Noun(4 words)

flashing gilt jarring kitsch

Adjective(12 words)

flaunting florid flossy froufrou gauche gay glaring grossgussied uphideous loud meretricious

Related words (140)

Adjective(30 words)

meretriciousornamental objectornamental vaseornateornate designoutlandish plumed plushy ritziest schlocky shiny shlocky showiest sleaziest spangly spiffy splashier splashiest splashy sporty

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swankest swanky tackier tackiest tatty tawdrier tawdriest tawdry trashiest trashy

miserable obscene obtrusive orotund ostentatious overbright overdone overelaborate overinvolved overwrought paltry pathetic pedantic phony pitiable pitiful pompous poor pretentious raffish

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Noun(19 words)

most decorativemost ornamentalornamental qualityparading peacock pimping plush rachet ratchet rococo schlock shlock shouting showoff spangling splashingsunlit glaretony trophy

Adjective(18 words)

obtrusive ostentatious pizazzy pretentious raffish ritzy showy snazzy splendiferous tacky tasteless tinsellytoo muchunbecoming untasteful vain whorish zesty

Verb(8 words)

ornamented paraded rubbernecked slathered splashed swanking tinseled tinselled

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

3 entries

aesthetic qualitybanquet feast

More specific

4 entries

flashy decorationsgarish colorsloud printstacky jewelry

Collocations

5 entries

gaudy clothinggaudy colorsgaudy decorationsgaudy jewelrygaudy patterns

Inflections

2 entries

gaudier gaudiest

Derivations

2 entries

gaudily gaudiness

similar

3 entries

colorful colourful tasteless

Sample sentences

20 total sentences available.

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Stick to jackets that aren't too gaudy.

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He slipped the gaudy shirt on.

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Don't you think that necklace is a bit gaudy?

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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.

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