gaudy Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun (Britain) a celebratory reunion feast or entertainment held a college
adjective satellite tastelessly showy
garish; brassy; meretricious; tatty; tawdry; flash; cheap; flashy; tacky; gimcrack; loud; trashy.
- a flash car
- a flashy ring
- garish colors
- a gaudy costume
- loud sport shirts
- a meretricious yet stylish book
- tawdry ornaments
adjective satellite (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display
showy; sporty; flashy; jazzy.

comparative Gaudier ; superlative Gauidiest

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.
Gay; merry; festal. Tennyson.
Let's have one other gaudy night. Shak.

See Gaud, n.

plural Gaudies

One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited. Obs. Gower.

A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day. Oxford Univ. Conybeare.