Synonyms of the word

gimcrack

• adj. Showy but of poor quality; worthless.
• n. Something showy but worthless; a gimmick or bauble.

brassy

• adj. Resembling brass.
• adj. (informal) Impudent; impudently bold.
• n. Same as brassie.
• n. Kyphosus vaigiensis, a fish found in southeast Asia.

cheap

• n. (obsolete) Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.
• n. (obsolete) A market; marketplace.
• n. Price.
• n. (obsolete) A low price; a bargain.
• n. Cheapness; lowness of price; abundance of supply.
• adj. Low and/or reduced in price.
• adj. Of poor quality.
• adj. Of little worth.
• adj. (slang, of an action or tactic in a game of skill) Underhand or unfair.
• adj. (chiefly Canada, US, derogatory) Ungenerous; stingy, mean (UK), tightfisted, excessively frugal.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To bargain for; chaffer for; ask the price of; offer a price for; cheapen.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To buy; purchase.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To sell.
• adv. Cheaply.

decoration

• n. The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.
• n. That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament.
• n. Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of…
• n. (biochemistry, immunology) The use of exotic sugars as decoys to distract the immune system of a host.

falderol

• n. Alternative form of folderol.

flash

• v. To briefly illuminate a scene.
• v. To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
• v. To be visible briefly.
• v. To make visible briefly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, informal) To briefly, and in most cases inadvertently, expose one's naked body…
• v. (transitive, informal) To show or expose an "inappropriate" part of the body to someone for humorous reasons…
• v. (figuratively) To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
• v. To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
• v. To communicate quickly.
• v. To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
• v. (intransitive, of liquid) To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.).
• v. (transitive, climbing) To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
• v. (computing) To write to the memory of an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge.
• v. (glassmaking) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
• v. (juggling) To perform a flash.
• v. (metallurgy) To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To trick up in a showy manner.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.
• n. A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
• n. A very short amount of time.
• n. (colloquial, US) A flashlight; an electric torch.
• n. (figuratively) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
• n. Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
• n. (Britain, Cockney) The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
• n. (juggling) A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
• n. (linguistics) A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood…
• n. (photography) Clipping of camera flash (“a device used to produce a flash of artificial light to help…
• n. (archaic) A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for colouring liquor to make it look stronger.
• adj. (Britain and New Zealand, slang) Expensive-looking and demanding attention; stylish; showy.
• adj. (Britain, of a person) Having plenty of ready money.
• adj. (Britain, of a person) Liable to show off expensive possessions or money.
• adj. (US, slang) Occurring very rapidly, almost instantaneously.
• n. A pool.
• n. (engineering) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream…

flashy

• adj. Showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing.
• adj. (dated, poetic) Flashing; producing flashes.

folderal

• n. Alternative spelling of folderol.

frill

• n. A strip of pleated material used as decoration or trim; a ruffle.
• n. (photography) A wrinkled edge to a film.
• n. A luxury.
• n. Something extraneous added for effect.
• v. (transitive) To make into a frill.
• v. (intransitive) To become wrinkled.
• v. (transitive) To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back in crimped plaits.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To shake or shiver as with cold.

garish

• adj. Overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste.

gaudy

• adj. very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner.
• adj. (obsolete) gay; merry; festive.
• n. One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.
• n. A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally held during the…

gimcrackery

• n. tastelessness.

loud

• adj. (of a sound) Of great intensity.
• adj. (of a person, thing, event, etc.) Noisy.
• adj. (of a person, event, etc.) Not subtle or reserved, brash.
• adj. (of clothing, decorations, etc.) Having unpleasantly and tastelessly contrasting colours or patterns;…
• adj. (of marijuana, slang) High-quality; premium; (by extension) having a strong or pungent odour indicating…
• adv. Loudly.
• n. (slang) High-quality marijuana.

meretricious

• adj. Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having in reality no value or substance; falsely alluring.
• adj. (law) Involving unlawful sexual connection or lack of consent by at least one party (said of a romantic…
• adj. (obsolete) Of, or relating to prostitutes or prostitution.

nonsense

• n. Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or seem to have no meaning.
• n. An untrue statement.
• n. Something foolish.
• n. (literature) A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by…
• n. (biology) A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
• v. To make nonsense of.
• v. To attempt to dismiss as nonsense.
• v. (intransitive) To joke around, to waste time.
• adj. (biochemistry) Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become…
• adj. nonsensical.

ornament

• n. An element of decoration; that which embellishes or adorns.
• n. A Christmas tree decoration.
• n. (music) A musical flourish that is unnecessary to the overall melodic or harmonic line, but serves to…
• v. To decorate.
• v. To add to.

ornamentation

• n. Decoration, adornment or embellishment.
• n. The act or process of decorating etc.

tacky

• adj. Of a substance, slightly sticky.
• adj. (colloquial) Of low quality.
• adj. (colloquial) In poor taste.
• adj. Gaudy, flashy, showy, garish.
• adj. Dowdy, shabbily dressed.
• adj. Shabby, dowdy in one's appearance.
• n. Alternative form of tackey.

tasteless

• adj. Having no flavour; bland, insipid.
• adj. Lacking delicacy, refinement and good taste; unbecoming, crass.

tatty

• n. (Northern England, Geordie, slang) potato.
• adj. Tattered; dilapidated, distressed, worn-out, torn.
• n. (India) A woven mat or screen hung at a door or window and kept wet to moisten and cool the air as it…

tawdry

• adj. (of clothing, appearance, etc.) Cheap and gaudy; showy.
• adj. (of character, behavior, situations, etc.) Unseemly, base, shameful.

trashy

• adj. Like trash; containing much trash.

trumpery

• n. Worthless finery; bric-a-brac or junk.
• n. Nonsense.
• n. (obsolete) Deceit; fraud.
• adj. Gaudy but of no value.