GILDED: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
Pronunciation: | | 'gildid
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Matching Terms: | | gilded flicker, Gilden, gilder
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- [adj] having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet"
- [adj] made from or covered with gold; "gold coins"; "the gold dome of the Capitol"; "the golden calf"; "gilded icons"
- [adj] rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded dining rooms"
- [adj] based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"
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| Synonyms: | | aureate, chromatic, deluxe, gilt, gold, golden, insincere, luxurious, meretricious, metal(a), metallic, opulent, princely, rich, specious, sumptuous |
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| Related Terms: | | apparent, aureate, auric, beige, buff, buff-yellow, canary, canary-yellow, citron, citron-yellow, colorable, colored, cream, creamy, ecru, fallow, flaxen, gilt, gold, gold-colored, golden, lemon, lemon-yellow, luteolous, lutescent, meretricious, ocherish, ocherous, ochery, ochreous, ochroid, ochrous, ochry, or, ostensible, plausible, primrose, primrose-colored, primrose-yellow, saffron, saffron-colored, saffron-yellow, sallow, sand-colored, sandy, seeming, specious, straw, straw-colored, tinsel, xanthic, xanthous, yellow, yellowish |
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