gaudy
adjective / noun
Meaning
- adjectiveVery showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner.
Example:
They were all trapped out in the gaudiest of clothes.
- nounOne of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.
- nounA reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally during the long vacation.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Five-letter puzzle facts
- How common
- Common
- #1,875 of 8,600 five-letter words by how often they're used
- Can be a Play Five answer
- As a first guess
- Tests likely letters better than 33% of common five-letter words.
- Vowels: 2 · Different letters: 5 · Repeated letters: None