Gaudy

a.	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. Let's have one other gaudy night. - Shak.
n.	1.	One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.
	1.	A feast or festival; - called also gaud-day and gaudy day.

Noun	1.	gaudy - a celebratory feast held annually at one of the colleges in a British university
Adj.	1.	gaudy - tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" Synonyms: flash, flashy, garish, gimcrack, tawdry, trashy, brassy, cheap, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty
	2.	gaudy - (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display Synonyms: sporty, flashy, jazzy, showy

Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, bedizened, beggarly, beneath contempt, big-sounding, blatant, blinding, brazen, brazenfaced, brummagem, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, coarse, colorful, common, contemptible, convoluted, crass, crude, crummy, declamatory, despicable, earthy, elevated, euphuistic, extravagant, fake, flagrant, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flaunting, florid, fulsome, garish, gimcrack, gimcracky, glaring, gorgeous, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, gross, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, honky-tonk, inkhorn, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, magniloquent, mean, meretricious, miserable, obscene, obtrusive, orotund, ostentatious, overbright, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, paltry, pathetic, pedantic, phony, pitiable, pitiful, pompous, poor, pretentious, raffish, raw, rhetorical, ribald, rough, rubbishy, rude, sad, screaming, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, shabby, sham, shameless, shoddy, shrieking, sonorous, sorry, spectacular, stilted, tacky, tall, tasteless, tatty, tawdry, tinsel, tinselly, tortuous, trashy, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, valueless, vile, vulgar, worthless, wretched

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