From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [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,
gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty,
tawdry, trashy]
2: (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display
[syn: flashy, jazzy, showy, sporty]
n : a celebratory feast held annually at one of the colleges in
a British university
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Gaudy \Gaud"y\, n.
A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and {gaudy
day}. [Oxford Univ.] --Conybeare.
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