gaudiness

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: gaud=i=ness

CIDE DICTIONARY

gaudiness, n. 

 The quality of being gaudy.  Whitlock.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

gaudiness

Barnumism, affectation, apparent character, appearances, arsenic green, bedizenment, beggarliness, big talk, blatancy, brazenness, cheapness, clashing colors, coarseness, color clash, colorfulness, contemptibleness, convolution, crassness, crudeness, crudity, crumminess, dash, dazzle, dazzlingness, despicableness, display, earthiness, exteriors, external appearance, externals, extravagance, extravaganza, extravagation, facade, flagrancy, flamboyance, flashiness, flatulence, flatulency, front, fulsomeness, gaiety, garishness, gaudery, glare, glitter, gorgeousness, grandiloquence, grandioseness, grandiosity, grossness, high-flown diction, inflatedness, inflation, jaundiced yellow, jauntiness, jazziness, lexiphanicism, luridness, magniloquence, meanness, mere externals, mere rhetoric, meretriciousness, meritlessness, miserableness, obscenity, obtrusiveness, orotundity, ostent, ostentation, ostentatious complexity, outward appearance, outward show, paltriness, panache, pitiableness, pitifulness, platitudinous ponderosity, polysyllabic profundity, pomposity, pompous prolixity, pompousness, pontification, poorness, pretension, pretentiousness, prose run mad, public image, rawness, rhetoric, rhetoricalness, ribaldry, roughness, rudeness, sadness, screaming color, sensationalism, sententiousness, shabbiness, shamelessness, shocking pink, shoddiness, show, showiness, sorriness, speciousness, sportiness, stiltedness, superficiality, surface appearance, surface show, swelling utterance, swollen phrase, swollenness, tall talk, tawdriness, tortuosity, tortuousness, tumidity, tumidness, turgescence, turgidity, unworthiness, vain show, vileness, vulgarness, worthlessness, wretchedness

ROGET THESAURUS

gaudiness

Vulgarity

N vulgarity, vulgarism, barbarism, Vandalism, Gothicism, mauvis gout, bad taste, gaucherie, awkwardness, want of tact, ill-breeding, courseness, indecorum, misbehavior, lowness, homeliness, low life, mauvais ton, rusticity, boorishness, brutality, rowdyism, blackguardism, ribaldry, slang, bad joke, mauvais plaisanterie, gaudiness, tawdriness, false ornament, finery, frippery, trickery, tinsel, gewgaw, clinquant, baroque, rococo, rough diamond, tomboy, hoyden, cub, unlicked cub, clown, Goth, Vandal, Boeotian, snob, cad, gent, parvenu, frump, dowdy, slattern, in bad taste vulgar, unrefined, coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross, unseemly, unbeseeming, unpresentable, contra bonos mores, ungraceful, dowdy, slovenly, ungenteel, shabby genteel, low, common, hoi polloi, uncourtly, uncivil, ill bred, ill mannered, underbred, ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike, unladylike, unfeminine, wild, wild as an unbacked colt, untutored, unschooled (ignorant), 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, unfashionable, newfangled, odd, particular, affected, meretricious, extravagant, monstrous, horrid, shocking, gaudy, tawdry, overornamented, baroque, rococo, bedizened, tricked out, gingerbread, obtrusive.