kitsch

• POS: Noun

OXFORD DICTIONARY

kitsch, n. (often attrib.) garish, pretentious, or sentimental art, usu. vulgar and worthless (kitsch plastic models of the royal family).

Derivative

kitschy adj. (kitschier, kitschiest). kitschiness n.

Etymology

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THESAURUS

kitsch

Babbittry, French literature, Renaissance literature, ancient literature, art object, bad taste, belles lettres, bourgeois taste, brainchild, bric-a-brac, camp, campiness, classic, classics, composition, contemporary literature, creation, design, erotic literature, erotica, folk literature, grotesque, high camp, humane letters, impropriety, inappropriateness, indecency, indecorousness, indecorum, indelicacy, inelegance, inelegancy, letters, literature, low camp, master, masterpiece, masterwork, medieval literature, mobile, museum piece, national literature, nude, obscene literature, old master, pasticcio, pastiche, philistinism, piece, piece of virtu, polite literature, poor taste, pop, pop culture, pop literature, popular literature, pornographic literature, pornography, pseudonymous literature, republic of letters, scatological literature, serious literature, stabile, statue, still life, study, tastelessness, travel literature, unaestheticism, unaestheticness, unbecomingness, underground literature, unfittingness, unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, virtu, vulgar taste, vulgarism, vulgarity, vulgarness, wisdom literature, work, work of art