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GILDED: Dictionary Entry and Meaning

Pronunciation:  'gildid

Matching Terms:  gilded flicker, Gilden, gilder

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 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet"
  2. [adj]  made from or covered with gold; "gold coins"; "the gold dome of the Capitol"; "the golden calf"; "gilded icons"
  3. [adj]  rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded dining rooms"
  4. [adj]  based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"
 
 Synonyms: aureate, chromatic, deluxe, gilt, gold, golden, insincere, luxurious, meretricious, metal(a), metallic, opulent, princely, rich, specious, sumptuous
 

 

 

Thesaurus Terms
 
 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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