meretricious

meretricious is a 12-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

12 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 19 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic.
2. adjective. Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; as, meretricious dress or ornaments.
3. adjective. based on pretense; deceptively pleasing

   "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"

   "meretricious praise"

   Synonyms: gilded, specious

4. adjective. tastelessly showy

   "a flash car"

   "a flashy ring"

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

5. adjective. like or relating to a prostitute

   "meretricious relationships"

Synonyms

gilded, specious, brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy

Common word forms

meretriciously

Words from these letters

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