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gaudy

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of gaudy

excessively showy
  • gaudy decorations on all the doors and windows at festival time
Synonyms of gaudy

flamboyant, flaring, flashy, garish, glitzy, loud, noisy, ostentatious, razzle-dazzle, splashy, swank (or swanky)
Words Related to gaudy

extravagant, fulsome, hammy, overdone, over-the-top, overwrought

baroque, bedizened, ornate

fancy, snazzy

blaring, bright, florid, glaring, glittery, overbright, spectacular

graceless, inelegant, lurid, tacky, tasteless, tawdry, tinselly, vulgar
Near Antonyms of gaudy

inconspicuous, muted, restrained, subdued, toned (down), unobtrusive

elegant, graceful, tasteful

modest, plain, simple
Antonyms of gaudy

conservative, quiet, understated, unflamboyant, unflashy

Synonym Discussion of gaudy

gaudy, tawdry, garish, flashy, meretricious mean vulgarly or cheaply showy. gaudy implies a tasteless use of overly bright, often clashing colors or excessive ornamentation.
    • circus performers in gaudy costumes
tawdry applies to what is at once gaudy and cheap and sleazy.
    • tawdry saloons
garish describes what is distressingly or offensively bright.
    • garish neon signs
flashy implies an effect of brilliance quickly and easily seen to be shallow or vulgar.
    • a flashy nightclub act
meretricious stresses falsity and may describe a tawdry show that beckons with a false allure or promise.
    • a meretricious wasteland of casinos and bars

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