Gaudy
['gɔːdɪ] or ['gɔdi]
Definition
(noun.) (Britain) a celebratory reunion feast or entertainment held a college.
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Definition
(superl.) Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious.
(superl.) Gay; merry; festal.
(n.) One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.
(n.) A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day.
Typist: Serena
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Showy, gay, flashy, dressy, tawdry, finical, glittering, flaunting, gairish.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Tawdry, fine, meretricious, bespangled, glittering, showy, gay, garish
ANT:Rich, simple, handsome, chaste
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Examples
- They lighted up Rebecca's figure to admiration, as she sat on a sofa covered with a pattern of gaudy flowers. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- There was a boat with a gaudy Japanese parasol, and a man in white, rowing. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The park was speckled by tents, whose flaunting colours and gaudy flags, waving in the sunshine, added to the gaiety of the scene. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I am to remain on this gaudy platform on which my miserable deception has been so long acted, and it is to fall beneath me when you give the signal? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Mrs Dengelton was doing a parrot in beadwork for a screen, and the gaudy bird might have passed for her portrait, so like her did it seem. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- An unclean starveling wrapped a gaudy table-cloth about his loins, and hung a white rag over my shoulders. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This gaudy relationship did him little good at school. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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