gaudy

gaudy is a 5-letter English word with 7 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. superlative. Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious.
2. superlative. Gay; merry; festal.
3. noun. One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.
4. noun. A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day.
5. noun. (Britain) a celebratory reunion feast or entertainment held a college
6. adjective. (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display

   Synonyms: flashy, jazzy, showy, sporty

7. adjective. tastelessly showy

   "a flash car"

   "a flashy ring"

   Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy

Synonyms

flashy, jazzy, showy, sporty, brassy, cheap, flash, garish, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy

Common word forms

gaudier, gaudies, gaudily, gaudiest

Words from these letters

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