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GAUDIER
GAUDY
flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, sporty
(adjective) (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display
brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy
(adjective) tastelessly showy; “a flash car”; “a flashy ring”; “garish colors”; “a gaudy costume”; “loud sport shirts”; “a meretricious yet stylish book”; “tawdry ornaments”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
gaudier
comparative form of gaudy
Source: Wiktionary
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.
Gaud"y, n.; pl. Gaudies Etym: [See Gaud, n.]
Definition: One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited. [Obs.] Gower.
Gaud"y, n.
Definition: A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day. [Oxford Univ.] Conybeare.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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