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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gaudy \Gaud"y\, adjective [Compar. {Gaudier}; superl. {Gauidiest}.]
1. Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy. --Shak.
2. Gay; merry; festal. --Tennyson.
Let's have one other gaudy night. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gaudy \Gaud"y\, noun; pl. {Gaudies} [See {Gaud}, noun] One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited. [Obs.] --Gower.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gaudy \Gaud"y\, noun A feast or festival; -- called also {gaud-day} and {gaudy day}. [Oxford Univ.] --Conybeare.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
gaudy
adjective
1: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn: {brassy}, {cheap}, {flash}, {flashy}, {garish}, {gimcrack}, {loud}, {meretricious}, {tacky}, {tatty}, {tawdry}, {trashy}]
2: (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display [syn: {flashy}, {jazzy}, {showy}, {sporty}]
noun: a celebratory feast held annually at one of the colleges in a British university [also: {gaudiest}, {gaudier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
127 Moby Thesaurus words for "gaudy": Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, bedizened, beggarly, beneath contempt, big-sounding, blatant, blinding, brazen, brazenfaced, brummagem, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, coarse, colorful, common, contemptible, convoluted, crass, crude, crummy, declamatory, despicable, earthy, elevated, euphuistic, extravagant, fake, flagrant, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flashy, flaunting, florid, fulsome, garish, gimcrack, gimcracky, glaring, gorgeous, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, gross, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, honky-tonk, inkhorn, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, loud, lurid, magniloquent, mean, meretricious, miserable, obscene, obtrusive, orotund, ostentatious, overbright, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, paltry, pathetic, pedantic, phony, pitiable, pitiful, pompous, poor, pretentious, raffish, raw, rhetorical, ribald, rough, rubbishy, rude, sad, screaming, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, shabby, sham, shameless, shoddy, showy, shrieking, sonorous, sorry, spectacular, stilted, tacky, tall, tasteless, tatty, tawdry, tinsel, tinselly, tortuous, trashy, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, valueless, vile, vulgar, worthless, wretched
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