Gaudy

Definition: Gaudy

Gaudy

Adjective

1. Tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments".

2. (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display.

Noun

1. (British) a celebratory feast held annually at one of the colleges in a British university.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "gaudy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Gaudy

Ornament

Showy, flashy; gaudy; (vulgar); garish, gairish; gorgeous.

Ostentation

Adjective: ostentatious, showy, dashing, pretentious; janty, jaunty; grand, pompous, palatial; high-sounding; turgid; (big-sounding); gairish, garish; gaudy, gaudy as a butterfly, gaudy as a tulip; flaunting, flashing, flaming, glittering; gay; (ornate).

Ugliness

Foul; (dirty); dingy; (colorless); gaudy; (color); disfigured; Verb: discolored.

Vulgarity

Gaudy, tawdry, overornamented, baroque, rococo; bedizened, tricked out, gingerbread; obtrusive.

Crosswords: Gaudy

It's a little gaudy, don't you think (Moonstruck; writing credit: John Patrick Shanley. Starring Cher as Loretta Castorini and Nicolas Cage as Ronny Cammareri.)

Whew! What is that gaudy stench (The Mummy; writing credit: Stephen Sommers; Lloyd Fonvielle)

Gaudy Night (1987)

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Books

• Brief Gaudy Hour (reference)

• Gaudy Night (reference)

• Gaudy Spree: The Literary Life of Hollywood in the 1930s When the West Was Fun (reference)

• Gaudy Welsh China (reference)

• Star-Spangled Kitsch: An Astounding and Tastelessly Illustrated Exploration of the Bawdy, Gaudy, Shoddy Mass-Art Culture in This Grand Land of Ours (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Gaudy Night (Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• 1992 Judy and Mary: Be Ambitious + It's a Gaudy It's a Gross [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

She shared her rooms, furnished in a gaudy yet wretched style, with a shrewd Frenchified English thief

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "gaudy": flashy gaudy jazzy showy snazzy sporty ♦ gaudy day. Additional references.

Beginning with "gaudy": gaudy-covered.

Albanian

pa finesë (roughly), i shkëlqyer (admirable, bright, brilliant, capital, choice, copybook, corking, crack, cracking, Dandy, divine, excellent, fabulous, famous, fantastic, fantastical, fine, first rate, flamboyant, glazy, glorious, glossy, gorgeous, great, heavenly, immense, marvellous, marvelous, perfect, pink, plum, powerful, prize, pukka, rare, ripping, royal, smashing, splendid, splendiferous, whizzbang, wicked), i pashije (dowdy, drab, flavorless, flavourless, frumpish, inelegant, insipid, mawkish, rococo, savorless, savourless). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مبهرج (chichi, flashy, florid, garish, showy, tawdry, tinsel), ‏عيد سنوي (anniversary), ‏صارخ (blatant, crying, flamboyant, fortissimo, garish, jarring, loud, lurid, noisy, outrageous, rank, sharp, showy, staring, trumpery, violent). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ярък (blazing, bright, clear, flaming, flashy, garish, gay, glaring, glowing, gutty, harsh, high-colored, high-coloured, hot, jazz, jazzy, live, loud, lucid, lurid, noisy, picturesque, refulgent, relucent, round, showy, staring, violent, vivid, zizzi), реторичен (periodic, sonorous), евтин (brummagem, cheap, cheesy, dime, halfpenny, hand-me-down, inexpensive, jitney, light, meretricious, sleazy, tawdry, tinsel, trumpery, two bit, twopence colored, twopence coloured, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, uncostly), безвкусен (conspicuous, flavorless, flavourless, gingerbread, insipid, meretricious, savorless, savourless, tasteless, tawdry, tinsel, twopence colored, twopence coloured, unpalatable, unsavory, unsavoury, vapid, watery, wishy washy), претрупан (elaborate, exuberant, finical, finicking, finicky, flamboyant, florid, fussy, luscious, lush, luxuriant, ornate, overladen, overwrought, piled, purple, redundant, rush, tawdry), пищен (baronial, exuberant, flamboyant, florid, gingerbread, gorgeous, lavish, lordly, luscious, lush, luxuriant, opulent, palatial, pompous, profuse, rich, riotous, spectacular, splendid, theatrical, voluptuous, wanton). (various references)

Chinese 

花里胡�"�, 花�"� (garish). (various references)

Czech

pestrý (bright, brightly colored, brightly coloured, chequered, colorful, colourful, fanciful, gaily coloured, gay, motley, multifarious, pied, varied, variegated), nápadný (conspicuous, garish, glaring, jazzy, loud, noticeable, ostentatious, outstanding, prominent, remarkable, showy, spectacular, sporty, striking), křiklavý (crude, flagrant, garish, glaring, jazzy, loud, startling, vociferous), řvavý (blatant, garish, jarring). (various references)

Farsi 

پرزرق وبرق (Gaily, Splendid), نمایش دار (Gorgeous), لوس (Chilish), زرق وبرق دار (Flamboyant, Gorgeous, Loud, Showy, Tawdry, Tinsel), جلف (Jackanapes, Jaunty, Racy, Rank, Sporty, Tawdry), روزشادی (Jubilee). (various references)

Finnish

räikeä (flagrant, garish, glaring, gross, harsh), kirjavan korea. (various references)

French

voyant (garish), criard (garish). (various references)

German

grell (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, blazing, dazzling, flashy, garish, garishly, gaudily, glaring, harsh, harshly, loud, loudly, lurid, luridly, penetratingly, piercing, raw, sharp, showy, shrill, strident, violent), farbenprächtig (gay, gloriously colorful, gorgeous). (various references)

Greek 

φανταχτερόσ (fancy, flamboyant, flashy, garish, jazzy, ornate, tawdry), φανταχτερός (colourful, garish, lurid, ostentatious). (various references)

Hungarian

tarka (brindled, calico, chequered, colorful, colourful, dappled, fancy, freaked, laced, medley, mottled, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, parti-colored, parti-coloured, party-colored, party-coloured, piebald, pied, Pinto, polychromatic, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated), cifra (fine, flashy, tawdry), öregdiákok évi összejövetele. (various references)

Indonesian

terlalu menyolok. (various references)

Italian

vistoso (blatant, catchy, considerable, dashing, flashy, garish, gorgeous, important, large, loud, meretricious, noisy, showy, tawdry, trumpery), sgargiante (loud, showy), festa (Bank holiday, binge, celebration, do, feast, festival, festivity, fete, holiday, holifay, jamboree, party), fastoso (brilliant, gorgeous, luxurious, magnificent, magnificently, pompous, sumptuous), chiassoso (blatant, boisterous, noisy, rackety, rambunctious, Randy, rowdy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

麗麗しい (ostentatious, showy), 麗々しい (ostentatious, showy), 煌びやか (dazzling, gay, gorgeous), 綺羅びやか (dazzling, gay, gorgeous), 絢爛 (brilliant, dazzling, gorgeous), 派手 (flashy, gay, loud, showy), あか抜ける (excessive, Happy New Year, showy, skips-most-stations Jouetsu-line shinkansen, to refine, vicious), けつの穴 (anal, ass, but, garish, however). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きらびやか (dazzling, gay, gorgeous), れいれいしい (ostentatious, showy), あくどい (excessive, showy, vicious), けばけば (garish), け�"ら�" (brilliant, dazzling, gorgeous), はで (flashy, gay, loud, showy). (various references)

Manx

ard-voyrnagh (gallant, grandiose, swollen-headed), ard-ghaaoil. (various references)

Norwegian

grell (glaring), glorete (flashy). (various references)

Pig Latin

audygay.(various references)

Portuguese

grande festa, vivo (above-ground, active, acute, adroit, agile, alert, alive, argute, bobbish, bouncing, brainy, breezy, bright, brisk, buoyant, chirpy, clear-sighted, clinking, coltish, cork, corky, crisp, dapper, diagram, fervent, frisky, gay, graphic, graphical, hasty, hurry, intense, juicy, keen, kittenish, knowing, light, lightsome, live, lively, living, luminous, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, nimble, nippy, parky, perky, pert, picturesque, poignant, quick, racy, rattling, resilient, shrewd, smart, spanking, speaking, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, subtil, subtile, subtle, swift, swift-handed, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, watchful, zippy), exagerado (a bit thick, exaggerated, exaggerative, fulsome, outre, overdone, scenic, scenical, stagey, stagy, steep), espalhafatoso (bustling, flashy, fussy, garish, loud, noisy, staring, tawdry), de mau gosto (tasteless, tawdry), berrante (garish, noisy, staring). (various references)

Romanian

voaiant, de prost gust (garish, painty), bogat (abundant, abundantly, affluent, ample, amply, bonanza, bountiful, copious, copiously, expensive, exuberant, fat, feathered, fertile, fortuned, free, full, fully, heeled, high, highly, lush, luxurious, moneyed, opulent, pecunious, plenteous, plentiful, profuse, purple, rank, redundant, rich, richly, saturated, Square, substantial, sumptuous, valuable, warm, wealthy, well off, well to do, well-off), bãtãtor (batler, batlet, beater, club, evident, glaring, glowing, picker, striking), ţipãtor (blatant, crude, crying, flash, flashy, flaunty, garish, glaring, gross, harsh, hot, jazzily, loud, noisy, painty, peeper, screaming, showy, shrill, staring, strident, tawdry, tinsel, violent). (various references)

Russian 

кричащий (crying, flashy, florid, garish, jazz, loud, nobby, noisy, screaming). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kitnjast (fancy, flamboyant, natty, ornamental, ornate), drečav (flaring, garish, loud, tacky). (various references)

Spanish

vulgar (commonplace, crude, humdrum, loud, mundane, ordinary, ornery, pedestrian, tacky, unladylike, vernacular, vulgar, vulgarian), ostentoso (flashy, grandiose, ostentatious, showy, swanky, swashing), llamativo (aggressive, arresting, blatant, catchpenny, effective, flamboyant, garish, jazzy, obtrusive, screaming, showy, staring, startling, striking), hortera (naff, wooden bowl), chillón (harsh, loud, lurid, noisy, screamer, screaming, sharp, shrill, startling, tawdry, vocal). (various references)

Swedish

prålig (flamboyant, flash, flashy, fussy, garish, meretricious, raffish, showy, sporty, tawdry), grann (brilliant, fine, gay, gewgaw, gorgeous, grandee, high-flown, magnificient, showy), brokig (brindled, chequered, dappled, kaleidoscopic, motley, particolored, particoloured, party-colored, party-coloured, piebald, pied, scratch, varied, variegated), bjärt (glaring, glaringly, loud). (various references)

Thai

ฉู�"ฉา�" (แต่ไร้รสนิยม). (various references)

Turkish

süslü püslü (fancy, flamboyant, flaming, meretricious, ornate), mezunlar yıllık ziyafeti, cırtlak renkli, şatafatlı (candied, de luxe, high-flown, ornate, pompous, showy, sounding, tumid), çiğ renkli. (various references)

Ukrainian

надто яскравий, барвистий (colorful, colourful, ornate, particolored, particoloured, purple). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tiệc h� ng năm của các cựu học sinh đại học, loè loẹt (catchpenny, flash, flashy, garish, gingerbread, rococo, showy, tawdry, tinty), hoa hoè hoa sói cầu kỳ. (various references)

Welsh

coegwych (garish, tawdry). (various references)

gaudere. (various references)

gaudir. (various references)

gaud, gaudy-green. (various references)

Misspellings

"Gaudy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aguy, arudy, audy, Baudy, gaddi, gadi, gadu, Gadya, Gapdh, gauda, Gaude, gaudey, gaudi, gaudia, Gaudie, gaudio, gaudir, Gaudry, gaugy, gauld, Gauldie, gauny, gauty, Gawdy, Gayda, geody, Giduk, Giudi, giudia, Glaud, Gnudi, goddy, gody, goudy, goudys, Grudie, Gtudu, guad, guadi, guany, guay, haudy, taudy, Vaudey. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: gaud, yaud, yuga.

-2 letters: dag, day, dug, gad, gay, guy.

-3 letters: ad, ag, ay, ya.

+2 letters: gaudery, gaudily, ladybug.

+3 letters: amygdule, draughty, guideway, ladybugs.

+4 letters: amygdules, audiology, bodyguard, budgetary, gradually, guardedly, guideways, languidly.

+5 letters: bodyguards, dauntingly, dramaturgy, gynandrous, playground, sluggardly, unfadingly.