Definitions for gaudy

gaudy gaud·y

Spelling: [gaw-dee]
IPA: /ˈgɔ di/

Gaudy is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in gaudy (adguy).

Definitions for gaudy

noun

  1. a festival or celebration, especially an annual college feast.

adjective

  1. brilliantly or excessively showy:
  2. cheaply showy in a tasteless way; flashy.
  3. ostentatiously ornamented; garish.

Origin of gaudy

1520-30; orig. attributive use of gaudy2; later taken as a derivative of gaud

Examples for gaudy

Thankful held the gaudy ring at arm's length and stared at it helplessly.

There is a purity that extends from north Orlando to this gathering of gaudy dilettantes.

Very few boys in Baltimore had been to bed that night: The show was altogether too gaudy.

U2 dropped a new single amidst the gaudy commercials on Super Bowl Sunday.

All are thick and rich, none are glazed, and none are gaudy.

In this narrative, the disgraced former President with his gaudy taste for golden toilets and exotic zoos, is cast as the Joker.

A thousand soldiers, in their most gaudy attire, composed his train.

She was dressed in a gaudy old calico gown, and had earrings in her ears.

Piracy in the past has acquired the gaudy technicolor of high romance.

She was a novelty item, presented in gaudy wrapping paper by a desperate John McCain to a jaded mainstream media.

Word Value for gaudy
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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