gaudy

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡɔː.di/    美 /ˈɡɔ.di/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited. archaic
    — In 1458, the owner of the precious book, which had been taken from the martyr’s body at the block, left a rosary of 50 coral beads with gold gaudies, to his “beloved, most blessed Saint Richard Scrope,” to help in his canonization, with a prayer to God that it might be granted of His great grace.
  2. A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally during the long vacation.
    — And since then, Mary had married and scarcely been heard of; except that she had haunted the College with a sick persistence, never missing an Old Students’ Meeting or a Gaudy.
形容词 adj.
  1. Very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner.
    — Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, / But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy.
  2. Fun; merry; festive. obsolete
    — Let's have one other gaudy night.

词形变化

gaudier comparative gaudiest superlative gaudies plural gaudies plural

词汇关系

近义词
bedizened blatant blingish brash campy catchpenny chichi chintzy corny crass crude flaunting florid flossy froufrou gauche gaudy gay glaring gross gussied up hideous kitsch loud meretricious naff obtrusive ostentatious pizazzy pretentious ritzy raffish schlocky showy snazzy splendiferous tacky tasteless tinselly too much trinkety unbecoming untasteful vain whorish zesty
反义词
unadorned
上位词
excessive
衍生词
gaudify gaudily gaudiness ungaudy
相关词
multicolored

词源

词源 1
From Middle English gaudi, from Old French gaudie, from Medieval Latin gaudia. equivalent to gaud (“ornament, trinket”) + -y.
Alternatively, from Middle English gaudi, gawdy (“yellowish”), from Old French gaude, galde (“weld (the plant)”), from Frankish *walda, from Proto-Germanic *walþō, *walþijō, akin to Old English *weald, *wielde (>Middle English welde, wolde and Anglo-Latin walda (“alum”)), Middle Low German wolde, Middle Dutch woude. More at English weld.
A common claim that the word derives from Antoni Gaudí, designer of Barcelona's Sagrada Família Basilica, is incorrect: the word was in use centuries before Gaudí was born.
词源 2
Borrowed from Latin gaudium (“joy”). Doublet of joy and jo.
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