Definitions for gilded

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gilded gild·ed

Spelling: [gil-did]

IPA: /ˈgɪl dɪd/

Gilded is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in gilded (ddegil).

Definitions for gilded

Idioms

1. gild the lily, to add unnecessary ornamentation, a special feature, etc., in an attempt to improve something that is already complete, satisfactory, or ideal:

adjective

1. covered or highlighted with gold or something of a golden color.
2. having a pleasing or showy appearance that conceals something of little worth.

verb (used with object)

1. to coat with gold, gold leaf, or a gold-colored substance.
2. to give a bright, pleasing, or specious aspect to.
3. Archaic. to make red, as with blood.

Origin of gilded

before 1000; gild¹ + -ed²; replacing Middle English gild, Old English gegyld

Examples for gilded

Even in 1999, this gilded cage of a cushy but unstimulating white-collar career was only available to certain people.

These were the little familiar deeds which gilded his name among the people.

Feast your eyes on the ‘top-grain leather,’ ‘original’ design, gilded pages.

There were other and still other banners, in velvet or in satin, balanced at the end of gilded batons.

But all in vain—she had to go back and sit on her gilded couch.

The trap was not gilded, and he was very uncomfortable in it.

At Oscar after-parties, movie stars clutch In-N-Out burgers in one hand and gilded trophies in the other.

It is like the gilded poison that undermines the human frame.

You may be wondering what work of monumental consequence is contained within these gilded pages.

Mary Soames is an exception to the rule that gilded offspring endure life rather than enjoy it.