tinsel

tinsel is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, adjective, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A shining material used for ornamental purposes; especially, a very thin, gauzelike cloth with much gold or silver woven into it; also, very thin metal overlaid with a thin coating of gold or silver, brass foil, or the like. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A shining material used for ornamental purposes; especially, a very thin, gauzelike cloth with much gold or silver woven into it; also, very thin metal overlaid with a thin coating of gold or silver, brass foil, or the like.
2. noun. Something shining and gaudy; something superficially shining and showy, or having a false luster, and more gay than valuable.
3. adjective. Showy to excess; gaudy; specious; superficial.
4. transitive verb. To adorn with tinsel; to deck out with cheap but showy ornaments; to make gaudy.
5. noun. a thread with glittering metal foil attached
6. noun. a showy decoration that is basically valueless

   "all the tinsel of self-promotion"

7. verb. interweave with tinsel

   "tinseled velvet"

8. verb. adorn with tinsel

   "snow flakes tinseled the trees"

9. verb. impart a cheap brightness to

   "his tinseled image of Hollywood"

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in tinsel:

elints, enlist, inlets, intels, listen, silent, slinte

Common word forms

tinsels, tinseled, tinselly, tinseling, tinselled, tinselling

Words from these letters

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