Synonyms for gaudy
- adjective
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Garish — very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner
garish, tawdry, flashy, loud, ostentatious, tacky, flaunting, chintzy, tasteless, kitschy, colorful US, colourful UK, florid, trashy, crass, pretentious, cheap, brassy, tatty, obtrusive, tinsel, blatant, gay
Definitions
- adj. 1
Very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner.
They were all trapped out in the gaudiest of clothes.
Example sentences
- flashy Yanni bought Skura flashy and expensive things.
- ostentatious Tom wants to build an ostentatious and smart house.
- garish The film is a simple story cloaked in garish splendour.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| gaudy | rising | |
| flashy | rising | |
| ostentatious | rising | |
| garish | rising | |
| tawdry | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- gay1
- 4 letters
- loud1
- 5 letters
- cheap1, tacky2, crass1, jazzy2, showy2, tatty2
- 6 letters
- flashy2, trashy2, sporty2, garish2, tinsel2, tawdry2, florid2, brassy2
- 7 letters
- blatant2, kitschy, chintzy2
- 8 letters
- colorful3
- 9 letters
- colourful, tasteless2, flaunting2, obtrusive3
- 11 letters
- pretentious3
- 12 letters
- ostentatious4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (tacky2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- tapageur