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gaudy
(encz) | gaudy,křiklavý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Gaudy
(gcide) | Gaudy \Gaud"y\, a. [Compar. Gaudier; superl. Gauidiest.]
1. Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or
meretricious.
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Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy. --Shak.
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2. Gay; merry; festal. --Tennyson.
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Let's have one other gaudy night. --Shak.
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Gaudy
(gcide) | Gaudy \Gaud"y\, n.; pl. Gaudies [See Gaud, n.]
One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster
is recited. [Obs.] --Gower.
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Gaudy
(gcide) | Gaudy \Gaud"y\, n.
A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and {gaudy
day}. [Oxford Univ.] --Conybeare.
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gaudy
(wn) | gaudy
adj 1: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring";
"garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts";
"a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
[syn: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish,
gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky,
tatty, tawdry, trashy]
2: (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display
[syn: flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, sporty]
n 1: (Britain) a celebratory reunion feast or entertainment held
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flashy gaudy jazzy showy snazzy sporty
(gcide) | colorful \colorful\ adj.
1. having striking color. Opposite of colorless.
Note: [Narrower terms: {changeable, chatoyant, iridescent,
shot}; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing;
prismatic; psychedelic; {red, ruddy, flushed,
empurpled}]
Syn: colourful.
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2. striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless
or dull. [Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious;
flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; {flashy, gaudy,
jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty}; picturesque]
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3. having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey;
as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and
monochrome.
Note: [Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; {amber,
brownish-yellow, yellow-brown}; amethyst; {auburn,
reddish-brown}; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden;
azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; {bicolor,
bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome}; {blue,
bluish, light-blue, dark-blue}; {blushful,
blush-colored, rosy}; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy;
brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; {canary,
canary-yellow}; caramel, caramel brown; carnation;
chartreuse; chestnut; dun; {earth-colored,
earthlike}; fuscous; {green, greenish, light-green,
dark-green}; jade, jade-green; khaki; {lavender,
lilac}; mauve; moss green, mosstone; {motley,
multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured,
painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied,
varicolored, varicoloured}; mousy, mouse-colored;
ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive;
orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish;
purple, violet, purplish; {red, blood-red, carmine,
cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red,
scarlet}; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red;
rust, rusty, rust-colored; {snuff, snuff-brown,
snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored,
snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown}; {sorrel,
brownish-orange}; stone, stone-gray; {straw-color,
straw-colored, straw-coloured}; tan; tangerine;
tawny; ultramarine; umber; {vermilion,
vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red}; yellow, yellowish;
yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; {blae
bluish-black or gray-blue)}; coral; creamy; {cress
green, cresson, watercress}; hazel; {honey,
honey-colored}; hued(postnominal); magenta;
maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green;
sea-green] [Also See: chromatic, colored, dark,
light.]
Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate).
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Gaudy
(gcide) | Gaudy \Gaud"y\, a. [Compar. Gaudier; superl. Gauidiest.]
1. Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or
meretricious.
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Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy. --Shak.
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2. Gay; merry; festal. --Tennyson.
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Let's have one other gaudy night. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]Gaudy \Gaud"y\, n.; pl. Gaudies [See Gaud, n.]
One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster
is recited. [Obs.] --Gower.
[1913 Webster]Gaudy \Gaud"y\, n.
A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and {gaudy
day}. [Oxford Univ.] --Conybeare.
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gaudy day
(gcide) | Gaudy \Gaud"y\, n.
A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and {gaudy
day}. [Oxford Univ.] --Conybeare.
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Gaudygreen
(gcide) | Gaudygreen \Gaud"y*green`\, a. or n. [OE. gaude grene.]
Light green. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Spenser.
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