Gaudy

Adjective

 * 1) Very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner.
 * 2) * 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:
 * The rooms were lofty and handsome, and their furniture suitable to the fortune of its proprietor; but Elizabeth saw, with admiration of his taste, that it was neither gaudy nor uselessly fine; with less of splendour, and more real elegance, than the furniture of Rosings.
 * 1) * 2005, Thomas Hauser & Marilyn Cole Lownes, "How Bling-bling Took Over the Ring", The Observer, 9 January 2005:
 * Gaudy jewellery might offend some people's sense of style. But former heavyweight champion and grilling-machine entrepreneur George Foreman is philosophical about today's craze for bling-bling.

Noun

 * 1) A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally held during the summer vacations.

Adverbs for Gaudy
unusually; unutterably; terribly; shockingly; extravagantly; oddly; gracelessly; unexpectedly; ridiculously; childishly; preposterously; horribly; offensively; disgustingly; unpleasantly.

Synonyms for Gaudy

 * tawdry, flashy, garish
 * glittering, showy, gay, ornamented, adorned, alluring, vulgar, cheap, tasteless, brilliant, dazzling, glaring, sparkling, frilly, bright, scintillating, shining, flashing, flamboyant, glistening, glossy.

Antonyms for Gaudy
plain, refined, dull, simple, tasteful, somber, lustreless, solemn, ugly, uninteresting, tarnished, gloomy, dark, obscure, shaded, dusky, dismal, faded, colorless, dim, darkened, pale, rusty, withered, blanched.

Derived terms

 * gaudily
 * gaudy night

Thesaurus
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

Etymology 1
Origin uncertain; perhaps from gaud:, itself perhaps from Old French gaudir:.

A common claim that the word derives from Antoni Gaudí, designer of Barcelona's Sagrada Família Basilica, is not supported by evidence.

Etymology 2
From Latin gaudium "joy".

Adjective

 * Bulgarian: евтин
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 花哨, 俗麗,  俗丽
 * Czech: nevkusný
 * Filipino:
 * French:, , surchargé, kitsch, moche, vulgaire
 * German: knallig, grell
 * Hungarian: cifra
 * Irish: gairéadach, scéiniúil, taibhseach, spiagaí


 * Italian: chiassoso, vistoso, sgargiante
 * Japanese: どぎつい, 派手, ,  あくどい
 * Manx: ard-ghaaoil
 * Polish: jarmarczny
 * Russian: цветастый, кричащий,  безвкусный
 * Spanish: llamativo, vistoso, sobrecargado, vulgar, feúcho