Meaning of GAUDY
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- [n] (British) a celebratory feast held annually at one of the colleges in a British university
- [adj] (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display
- [adj] tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
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| | Synonyms: | | brassy, cheap, colorful, flash, flashy, garish, gimcrack, in poor taste(p), jazzy, loud, meretricious, showy, sporty, tacky, tasteless, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
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\Gaud"y\, a. [Compar. {Gaudier}; superl. {Gauidiest}.]
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.
\Gaud"y\, n.; pl. {Gaudies} [See {Gaud}, n.]
One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster
is recited. [Obs.] --Gower.
\Gaud"y\, n.
A feast or festival; -- called also {gaud-day} and {gaudy
day}. [Oxford Univ.] --Conybeare.
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