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Synonyms for chintzy

  • adjective

Most common

cheap tacky sleazy kitschy

All synonyms

Adjective

1. Cheap — tastelessly showy; cheap, gaudy, or tacky

cheap, tacky, sleazy, kitschy, garish, stingy, gaudy, tawdry, cheesy, shabby, crummy informal, shoddy, flashy, trashy, tasteless, tinny, poor, miserly, inferior, ungenerous, niggardly, blatant

Antonyms

low-key, simple, modest

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Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Tastelessly showy; cheap, gaudy, or tacky.

Related words

Word family
chintzily
Other spellings
chinchy chinsy

Example sentences

  • cheap It is cheap, but on the other hand it is not good.
  • tacky I don't like boxer shorts very much. They're tacky.
  • sleazy Tom's a sleazy letch, and he gives Mary the creeps.
  • kitschy This show is terribly kitschy. But I'm into it!

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
chintzyrising
cheaprising
tackyrising
sleazyrising
kitschyrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
poor1
5 letters
cheap1, tacky2, gaudy2, tinny2
6 letters
cheesy2, shabby2, flashy2, trashy2, sleazy2, stingy2, shoddy2, garish2, crummy2, tawdry2
7 letters
blatant2, miserly3, kitschy
8 letters
inferior4
9 letters
tasteless2, niggardly3
10 letters
ungenerous

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (tacky2 = 2 syllables).