Tacky

//ˈtæki//

Synonyms for "tacky" (257 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (52)

gimcrack wet adherent adhesive amylaceous base beat up beat-up bedraggled blowsy blowzy boggy breakable brittle broken down broken-down brummagem bulldogged bulldoggish bulldoggy

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bullheaded careless cheap cheap-jack cheesy chintzy clabbered clammy clingy clotted coagulated coarse cobwebby common crude crumbly curdled dainty damp dampish dank decrepit delicate delicately weak dewy dilapidated

Adjective(4 words)

blatant brash corny derelict

Adjective(2 words)

brassy cheap

Strong matches (77)

Related words (128)

low grade low test low-class low-grade low-quality low-test lumpen marshy mean messy mickey mouse moist mucilaginous muggy mussy namby pamby namby-pamby negligent obstinate out-of-date

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Adjective(4 words)

meretricious tatty tawdry trashy

Adjective(15 words)

old hat old school old-fashioned ossified pansified pizazzy ramshackle rinky-dink showy tatterdemalion uncool unfashionable unhip untasteful vain

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

8 relation types

More general

11 entries

adherent adhesive agglutinative claggy clidgy clingsome clingy puggy stickable sticky tenacious

Synonyms

1 entries

gimcrack

derived

1 entries

ticky-tacky

derived from

1 entries

tack

etymologically related_to

3 entries

seedy shabby tackey

form of

1 entries

tackey

related to

9 entries

dowdy dressed flashy garish gaudy shabbily shabby showy sticky

similar

4 entries

kitschy tasteless wet

Translations

87 translations across 20 languages.

Bulgarian

1 entries

лепкав adj (slightly sticky)

Catalan

1 entries

xaró adj (colloquial: in bad taste)

Czech

1 entries

lepkavý adj (slightly sticky)

Danish

3 entries

billig adj (colloquial: of low quality)
let klæbende adj (slightly sticky)
smagløs adj (colloquial: in bad taste)

Dutch

3 entries

goedkoop adj (colloquial: of low quality)
slecht adj (colloquial: of low quality)
smakeloos adj (colloquial: in bad taste)

Esperanto

3 entries

kiĉa adj (colloquial: in bad taste)
malbongusta adj (colloquial: in bad taste)
puca adj (colloquial: in bad taste)

Finnish

4 entries

halpa adj (colloquial: of low quality)
mauton adj (colloquial: in bad taste)
nuhjuinen adj (dowdy, shabbily dressed)
nuhjuinen adj (dowdy, shabby (in one's appearance))

French

2 entries

collant adj (slightly sticky)
quétaine adj (colloquial: in bad taste)

German

4 entries

billig adj (colloquial: of low quality)
geschmacklos adj (colloquial: in bad taste)
klebrig adj (slightly sticky)
minderwertig adj (colloquial: of low quality)

Indonesian

2 entries

receh adj (colloquial: of low quality)
receh adj (colloquial: in bad taste)

Italian

4 entries

appariscente adj (gaudy, flashy, showy, garish)
appiccicaticcio adj (slightly sticky)
appiccicoso adj (slightly sticky)
di cattivo gusto adj (colloquial: in bad taste)

Latvian

1 entries

lipīgs adj (slightly sticky)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries

harry adj (colloquial: in bad taste)
smakløs adj (colloquial: in bad taste)

Norwegian Nynorsk

2 entries

harry adj (colloquial: in bad taste)
smaklaus adj (colloquial: in bad taste)

Polish

2 entries

lepki adj (slightly sticky)
tandetny adj (colloquial: of low quality)

Portuguese

4 entries

brega adj (colloquial: in bad taste)
cafona adj (colloquial: in bad taste)
cafona adj (dowdy, shabbily dressed)
de mau gosto adj (colloquial: in bad taste)

Russian

4 entries

аляпова́тый adj (colloquial: of low quality)
бе́дно оде́тый adj (dowdy, shabbily dressed)
безвку́сный adj (colloquial: in bad taste)
бро́ский adj (gaudy, flashy, showy, garish)

Spanish

4 entries

chafa adj (colloquial: of low quality)
chopo adj (colloquial: of low quality)
chopo adj (colloquial: in bad taste)
cursi adj (colloquial: in bad taste)

Tagalog

2 entries

baduy adj (colloquial: of low quality)
baduy adj (colloquial: in bad taste)

Turkish

1 entries

pejmürde adj (dowdy, shabbily dressed)

Sample sentences

14 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Because he thought Fred's comment was tacky, Larry got up on his high horse.

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What a tacky idea!

Source: tatoeba (4495402)

It looks tacky.

Source: tatoeba (6289598)

Mary's gold iPhone looks tacky.

Source: tatoeba (6289602)

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