Thesaurus:gaudy
English
Adjective
Sense: excessively or tastelessly showy
Synonyms
- bedizened (literary)
- blatant
- blingish
- brash
- catchpenny
- chichi
- chintzy
- crass
- crude [⇒ thesaurus]
- flashy
- flaunting
- florid
- flossy
- froufrou
- garish
- gauche
- gaudy
- gay [⇒ thesaurus]
- glaring
- gross
- gussied up
- hideous
- kitschy
- loud [⇒ thesaurus]
- meretricious
- obtrusive
- ostentatious
- pizazzy
- pretentious [⇒ thesaurus]
- ritzy
- raffish
- showy
- snazzy
- splendiferous
- tacky
- tasteless
- tawdry
- tinselly
- too much
- unbecoming
- untasteful
- vain [⇒ thesaurus]
- whorish
- zesty
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See also
Further reading
- “851. vulgarity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “gaudy” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.