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gaudy
1[ gaw-dee ]
gaudy
2[ gaw-dee ]
noun
- a festival or celebration, especially an annual college feast.
gaudy
1/ ˈɡɔːdɪ /
noun
- a celebratory festival or feast held at some schools and colleges
gaudy
2/ ˈɡɔːdɪ /
adjective
- gay, bright, or colourful in a crude or vulgar manner; garish
Derived Forms
- ˈgaudiness, noun
- ˈgaudily, adverb
Other Words From
- gaud·i·ly adverb
- gaud·i·ness noun
- un·gaud·i·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of gaudy1
Origin of gaudy2
Word History and Origins
Origin of gaudy1
Origin of gaudy2
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Ubiquitously dyed in bright and gaudy colors, they unsurprisingly didn’t serve any practical purpose.
Gaming headsets tend to identify themselves with gaudy, RGB-enhanced styling.
Each character’s mind movie gets its own episode, interspersed with scenes of their classmates comforting and irritating one another at Xavier’s gaudy house as the interrogation takes place.
Now, it feels impractical, which makes its gamer-gear styling feel gaudy, rather than futuristic.
Ignore your GPS and explore the side streets, which will help you circumvent traffic and the gaudy clamor.
Much like the Taj Mahal, Revel opened in classically gaudy Atlantic City style in April 2012—with a sunrise Champagne toast.
Very few boys in Baltimore had been to bed that night: The show was altogether too gaudy.
There is a purity that extends from north Orlando to this gathering of gaudy dilettantes.
In this narrative, the disgraced former President with his gaudy taste for golden toilets and exotic zoos, is cast as the Joker.
U2 dropped a new single amidst the gaudy commercials on Super Bowl Sunday.
Batterby, in gaudy raiment, went to an office in Manchester; in gaudier raiment he often attended race meetings.
The belated moon stole up from its lair, hovered above the sky-line, a gaudy orange sphere in the haze of smoke.
Not even in Agra, and certainly not in gaudy Lucknow, had Malcolm seen any structure of such striking architectural effect.
She laughed at the comedy and wept—she and the gaudy woman next to her wept over the tragedy.
We got Fanny a dress on the sly, gaudy black velvet and Duchesse lace.
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