Britain A celebratory reunion feast or entertainment held a college.

Tastelessly showy:
— A gaudy costume.

synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy ... show more.

Roget 847: ornamented, beautified etc. v.; ornate, rich, gilt, begilt^†, tesselated, festooned; champleve [Fr.], cloisonne, topiary.    smart, gay, trickly^†, flowery, glittering; new gilt, new spangled; fine as a Mayday queen, fine as a fivepence^†, fine as a carrot fresh scraped; pranked out, bedight^†, well-groomed.    in full dress etc. (fashion) 852; dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, dressed to advantage; in Sunday best, en grand tenue [Fr.], en grande toilette [Fr.]; in best bib and tucker, endimanche [Fr.].    showy, flashy; gaudy etc. (vulgar) 851; garish, gairish^†; gorgeous.    ornamental, decorative; becoming etc. (accordant) 23.    ... show more

Roget 851: in bad taste vulgar, unrefined.    coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross; unseemly, unbeseeming^†, unpresentable^†; contra bonos mores [Lat.]; ungraceful etc. (ugly) 846.    dowdy; slovenly etc. (dirty) 653; ungenteel, shabby genteel; low, common, hoi polloi [Gr.], etc. (plebeian) 876; uncourtly^†; uncivil etc. (discourteous) 895; ill bred, ill mannered; underbred; ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike; unladylike, unfeminine; wild, wild as an unbacked colt.    untutored, unschooled (ignorant) 491.    unkempt.    uncombed, untamed, unlicked^†, unpolished, uncouth; plebeian; incondite^†; heavy, rude, awkward; homely, homespun, home bred; provincial, countrified, rustic; boorish, clownish; savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish; barbarous, barbaric; Gothic, unclassical^†, doggerel, heathenish, tramontane, outlandish; uncultivated; Bohemian.    obsolete etc. (antiquated) 124; unfashionable; newfangled etc. (unfamiliar) 83; odd etc. (ridiculous) 853.    particular; affected etc. 855; meretricious; extravagant, monstrous, horrid; shocking etc. (painful) 830.    gaudy, tawdry, overornamented, baroque, rococo; bedizened, tricked out, gingerbread; obtrusive.    ... show more

Roget 882: ostentatious, showy, dashing, pretentious; janty^†, jaunty; grand, pompous, palatial; high-sounding; turgid etc. (big-sounding) 577; gairish^†, garish; gaudy, gaudy as a peacock, gaudy as a butterfly, gaudy as a tulip; flaunting, flashing, flaming, glittering; gay etc. (ornate) 847.    splendid, magnificent, sumptuous.    theatrical, dramatic, spectacular; ceremonial, ritual.    solemn, stately, majestic, formal, stiff, ceremonious, punctilious, starched.    dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, decjed out, all decked out, en granite tenue [Fr.], in best bib and tucker, in Sunday best, endimanch_e, chic.    ... show more

Roget 846: ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey; plain, bald (unadorned) 849; homely; ordinary, unornamental^†, inartistic; unsightly, unseemly, uncomely, unlovely; unshapely; sightless, seemless^†; not fit to be seen; unbeauteous^†, unbeautiful; beautiless^†, semibeautiful; shapeless etc. (amorphous) 241.    misshapen, misproportioned^†; monstrous; gaunt etc. (thin) 203; dumpy etc. (short) 201; curtailed of its fair proportions; ill-made, ill-shaped, ill-proportioned; crooked etc. (distorted) 243; hard featured, hard visaged; ill-favored, hard-favored, evil-favored; ill-looking; unprepossessing, unattractive, uninviting, unpleasing.    graceless, inelegant; ungraceful, ungainly, uncouth, stiff; rugged, rough, gross, rude, awkward, clumsy, slouching, rickety; gawky; lumping, lumpish^†; lumbering; hulky^†, hulking; unwieldy.    squalid, haggard; grim, grim faced, grim visaged; grisly, ghastly; ghost like, death like; cadaverous, grewsome^†, gruesome.    frightful, hideous, odious, uncanny, forbidding; repellant, repulsive, repugnant, grotesque, bizarre; grody [Coll.], grody to the max [Coll.]; horrid, horrible; shocking etc. (painful) 830.    foul etc. (dirty) 653; dingy etc. (colorless) 429; gaudy etc. (color) 428; disfigured etc. v.; discolored.    ... show more

Roget 428: colored etc. v.; colorific^†, tingent^†, tinctorial^†; chromatic, prismatic; full-colored, high-colored, deep-colored; doubly-dyed; polychromatic; chromatogenous^†; tingible^†.    bright, vivid, intense, deep; fresh, unfaded^†; rich, gorgeous; gay.    gaudy, florid; gay, garish; rainbow-colored, multihued; showy, flaunting, flashy; raw, crude; glaring, flaring; discordant, inharmonious.    mellow, pastel, harmonious, pearly, sweet, delicate, tender, refined.    ... show more

Polish: tromtadracki, szpanerski, efekciarski, kabotyński

used especially of clothes Marked by conspicuous display.

synonyms: flashy, jazzy, showy, sporty.