GAUDY meaning: Extravagantly bright or showy decoration

We found 32 dictionaries that define the word GAUDY:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

gaudy: Merriam-Webster
gaudy, gaudy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
gaudy, gaudy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
gaudy: Collins English Dictionary
gaudy: Vocabulary.com
Gaudy, gaudy: Wordnik
gaudy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
gaudy: Wiktionary
gaudy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
gaudy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
gaudy: Infoplease Dictionary
Gaudy, gaudy: Dictionary.com
gaudy: Online Etymology Dictionary
gaudy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Gaudy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Gaudy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
gaudy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
gaudy: Rhymezone
gaudy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
gaudy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
gaudy: FreeDictionary.org
gaudy: Mnemonic Dictionary
Gaudy: The Word Detective
gaudy: TheFreeDictionary.com
gaudy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)

Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)

gaudy: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

gaudy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

gaudy: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gaudy)

▸ adjective:  Very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Fun; merry; festive.
▸ noun:  (archaic) One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.
▸ noun:  (Oxford University) A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally during the long vacation.

Similar:

showy, garish, meretricious, flashy, gimcrack, loud, trashy, cheap, tasteless, flash, more...

Opposite:

subtle, understated, simple, elegant, refined

Types:

flashy, garish, tacky, ostentatious, flamboyant, kitschy, loud, showy, brash, more...

Phrases:

Gaudy Night, gaudy day, gaudy but good, not gaudy, gaudy cheap, more...

Adjectives:

little, such, dutifull, annual, whole, own, great, obedient, same

Colors:

neon pink, electric blue, lime green, bright yellow, hot pink, more...