English-Thai Dictionary

gaudy

ADJ ฉูดฉาด (แต่ ไร้ รสนิยม  หรูหรา  garish flashy tasteful muted chud-chad

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GAUDY

a.Showy; splendid; gay. A goldfinch there I saw, with gaudy pride
Of painted plumes--
1. Ostentatiously fine; gay beyond the simplicity of nature or good taste.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy.

 

GAUDY

n.A feast or festival; a word in the university.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

GAUDY

Gaud "y, a. [Compar. Gaudier; superl. Gauidiest.]

 

1. Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy. Shak.

 

2. Gay; merry; festal. Tennyson. Let's have one other gaudy night. Shak.

 

GAUDY

Gaud "y, n.; pl. Gaudies Etym: [See Gaud, n.]

 

Defn: One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited. [Obs. ] Gower.

 

GAUDY

GAUDY Gaud "y, n.

 

Defn: A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day. [Oxford Univ. ] Conybeare.

 

GAUDYGREEN

Gaud "y *green `, a. or n. Etym: [OE. gaude grene. ]

 

Defn: Light green. [Obs. ] Chaucer. Spenser.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

gaudy

gaud y 1 |ˈgôdē ˈɡɔdi | ▶adjective ( gaudier, gaudiest ) extravagantly bright or showy, typically so as to be tasteless: silver bows and gaudy ribbons. DERIVATIVES gaud i ly |-dəlē |adverb, gaud i ness noun ORIGIN late 15th cent.: probably from gaud + -y 1 .

 

gaudy

gaud y 2 |ˈɡɔdi ˈgôdē | ▶noun ( pl. gaudies ) Brit. a celebratory reunion dinner or entertainment held by a college. ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘rejoicing, a celebration ’): from Latin gaudium ‘joy, ’ or from gaude ‘rejoice!, ’ imperative of gaudere.

 

Oxford Dictionary

gaudy

gaudy 1 |ˈgɔːdi | ▶adjective ( gaudier, gaudiest ) extravagantly bright or showy, typically so as to be tasteless: silver bows and gaudy ribbons. DERIVATIVES gaudily adverb, gaudiness noun ORIGIN late 15th cent.: probably from gaud + -y 1 .

 

gaudy

gaudy 2 |ˈgɔːdi | ▶noun ( pl. gaudies ) Brit. a celebratory dinner or entertainment held by a college for old members. ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘rejoicing, a celebration ’): from Latin gaudium ‘joy ’, or from gaude ‘rejoice! ’, imperative of gaudere.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

gaudy

gaudy adjective the motel rooms were clean but howlingly gaudy: garish, lurid, loud, overbright, glaring, harsh, violent, showy, glittering, brassy, ostentatious; tasteless, in bad taste, tawdry, vulgar, unattractive, bilious; informal flash, flashy, tacky, kitsch, kitschy. ANTONYMS drab, tasteful.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

gaudy

gaudy adjective he wears cheap, gaudy clothes: garish, lurid, loud, over-bright, glaring, harsh, violent, flashy, showy, glittering, brassy, ostentatious; tasteless, in bad taste, vulgar, distasteful, unattractive, nauseating, bilious, sickly; informal flash, tacky; N. Amer. informal bling-bling. ANTONYMS drab; tasteful.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

gaudy

gaud y /ɡɔ́ːdi /形容詞 けばけばしい ; 派手な, 飾りすぎた .g á ud i ly 副詞 g á ud i ness 名詞