GILDED

aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden

(adjective) having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; “long aureate (or golden) hair”; “a gold carpet”

gold, golden, gilded

(adjective) made from or covered with gold; “gold coins”; “the gold dome of the Capitol”; “the golden calf”; “gilded icons”

deluxe, gilded, grand, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous, lush

(adjective) ostentatiously rich and superior in quality; “a princely sum”; “gilded dining rooms”; “these architecture magazines are full of the lush interiors of the rich and famous”

gilded, meretricious, specious, glossy

(adjective) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; “the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility”; “meretricious praise”; “a meretricious argument”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Verb

gilded

simple past tense and past participle of gild

Adjective

gilded

Having the color or quality of gold.

Made of gold or covered by a thin layer of gold.

Having a falsely pleasant appearance; sugarcoated.

Anagrams

• glided

Source: Wiktionary

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GILD

Gild, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gilded or Gilt (p. pr. & vb. n. Gilding.] Etym: [AS. gyldan, from gold gold. sq. root234. See Gold.]

1. To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold. "Gilded chariots." Pope. No more the rising sun shall gild the morn. Pope.

2. To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten. Let oft good humor, mild and gay, Gild the calm evening of your day. Trumbull.

3. To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie. Shak.

4. To make red with drinking. [Obs.] This grand liquior that hath gilded them. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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