Joyful; merry; festive.

Brilliantly fine or gay; bright; garish.

Showy without taste; vulgarly gay or splendid; flashy.

Synonyms Flaunting, glittering; garish, flashy, dressy, finical. See tawdry.

noun. A feast or festival; an entertainment; a treat.

noun. Gaiety; gaudiness.

noun. One of the beads in the rosary marking the five joyful mysteries, or five joys of the Virgin. See rosary. Also gaud.

noun. One of the tapers burnt, in commemoration of the five joyful mysteries, by the image, on the altar, or in a chapel of the Virgin, during masses, antiphons, and hymns in her honor.

To deck with ostentatious finery; bedizen.

adjective. Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious.

adjective. Gay; merry; festal.

noun. One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.

noun. A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day.

adjective. very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner

noun. A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally held during the summer vacations.

noun. (Britain) a celebratory reunion feast or entertainment held a college

adjective. (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display

adjective. tastelessly showy

"Bender's fiction accepts those constraints and relates decidedly familiar stories dressed up in gaudy but cheap disguises."

modest  simple  

colorful  colourful  tasteless  

banquet  feast  

Saudi  bawdy  dawdy  

colorful  costly  dainty  dazzle  floral  

Gongoresque  Johnsonian  affected  bedizened  beggarly  

gaud-day  gaudier  gaudiest  gaudy day