Gaudy

gaudy
    adj 1: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring";
           "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts";
           "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
           [syn: {brassy}, {cheap}, {flash}, {flashy}, {garish},
           {gaudy}, {gimcrack}, {loud}, {meretricious}, {tacky},
           {tatty}, {tawdry}, {trashy}]
    2: (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display
       [syn: {flashy}, {gaudy}, {jazzy}, {showy}, {sporty}]
    n 1: (Britain) a celebratory reunion feast or entertainment held
         a college
    

Gaudy \Gaud"y\, a. [Compar. {Gaudier}; superl. {Gauidiest}.]
   1. Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or
      meretricious.
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            Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
            But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy. --Shak.
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   2. Gay; merry; festal. --Tennyson.
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            Let's have one other gaudy night.     --Shak.
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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.
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Gaudy \Gaud"y\, n.
   A feast or festival; -- called also {gaud-day} and {gaudy
   day}. [Oxford Univ.] --Conybeare.
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127 Moby Thesaurus words for "gaudy":
      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, flashy, 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, loud, 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, showy, 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