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English Dictionary: gaudy	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for gaudy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gaudy adj tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" Synonym(s): brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display Synonym(s): flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, sporty n (Britain) a celebratory reunion feast or entertainment held a college
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gaudy \Gaud"y\, a. [Compar. {Gaudier}; superl. {Gauidiest}.] 1. Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy. --Shak. 2. Gay; merry; festal. --Tennyson. Let's have one other gaudy night. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gaudy \Gaud"y\, n.; pl. {Gaudies} [See {Gaud}, n.] One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited. [Obs.] --Gower.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gaudy \Gaud"y\, n. A feast or festival; -- called also {gaud-day} and {gaudy day}. [Oxford Univ.] --Conybeare.