Word Meanings - TAWDRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

corrupted from Saint Audrey, or Auldrey, meaning Saint Ethelreda, implying therefore, originally, bought at the fair of St. Audrey, where laces and gay toys of all sorts were sold. This fair was held in Isle Ely, and probably at other places, on

Additional info about word: TAWDRY

corrupted from Saint Audrey, or Auldrey, meaning Saint Ethelreda, implying therefore, originally, bought at the fair of St. Audrey, where laces and gay toys of all sorts were sold. This fair was held in Isle Ely, and probably at other places, on the day of the saint, 1. Bought at the festival of St. Audrey. And gird in your waist, For more fineness, with a tawdry lace. Spenser. 2. Very fine and showy in colors, without taste or elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; cheap and gaudy; as, a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors. He rails from morning to night at essenced fops and tawdry courtiers. Spectator.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TAWDRY)

• Bedizen
• Tawdry
• gaudy
• flashy
• bespangled
• Flaring
• Flaming
• glaring
• conspicuous
• bright
• over-colored
• flaunting
• showy
• tawdry
• ostentatious
• Gaudy
• fine
• meretricious
• glittering
• gay
• garish
• Meretricious
• Tricksy
• unchaste
• impure

Related words: (words related to TAWDRY)

• BRIGHT
  See I
• FLARE-UP
  A sudden burst of anger or passion; an angry dispute.
• FLAMINEOUS
  Pertaining to a flamen; flaminical.
• FLARING
  1. That flares; flaming or blazing unsteadily; shining out with a dazzling light. His flaring beams. Milton. 2. Opening or speading outwards.
• CONSPICUOUS
  1. Open to the view; obvious to the eye; easy to be seen; plainly visible; manifest; attracting the eye. It was a rock Of alabaster, piled up to the clouds, Conspicious far. Milton. Conspicious by her veil and hood, Signing the cross, the abbess
• FLAMINICAL
  Pertaining to a flamen. Milton.
• FLAMMIFEROUS
  Producing flame.
• FLAMING
  1. Emitting flames; afire; blazing; consuming; illuminating. 2. Of the color of flame; high-colored; brilliant; dazzling. "In flaming yellow bright." Prior. 3. Ardent; passionate; burning with zeal; irrepressibly earnest; as, a flaming proclomation
• GLARE
  1. To shine with a bright, dazzling light. The cavern glares with new-admitted light. Dryden. 2. To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely. And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon. Byron. 3. To be bright and
• FLAMBOYER
  A name given in the East and West Indies to certain trees with brilliant blossoms, probably species of Cæsalpinia.
• FLAUNTINGLY
  In a flaunting way.
• GLAREOUS
  Glairy. John Georgy .
• MERETRICIOUS
  prostitute, lit., one who earns money, i. e., by prostitution, fr. 1. Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic. 2. Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully
• FLAUNT
  To throw or spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously; as, a flaunting show. You flaunt about the streets in your new gilt chariot. Arbuthnot. One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade. Pope.
• FLAMELET
  A small flame. The flamelets gleamed and flickered. Longfellow.
• BEDIZEN
  To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste. Remnants of tapestried hangings, . . . and shreds of pictures with which he had bedizened his tatters. Sir W. Scott.
• BRIGHTSOME
  Bright; clear; luminous; brilliant. Marlowe.
• BESPANGLE
  To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering. The grass . . . is all bespangled with dewdrops. Cowper.
• IMPURE
  Not purified according to the ceremonial law of Moses; unclean. (more info) 1. Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water
• BEDIZENMENT
  That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily.
• BURGLARIOUSLY
  With an intent to commit burglary; in the manner of a burglar. Blackstone.
• INFLAMER
  The person or thing that inflames. Addison.
• DISINFLAME
  To divest of flame or ardor. Chapman.
• INFLAMED
  Represented as burning, or as adorned with tongues of flame. (more info) 1. Set on fire; enkindled; heated; congested; provoked; exasperated.
• BURGLAR
  One guilty of the crime of burglary. Burglar alarm, a device for giving alarm if a door or window is opened from without. (more info) German origin) + OF. lere thief, fr. L. latro. See Borough, and
• EMBRIGHT
  To brighten.
• INFLAMMABILLTY
  Susceptibility of taking fire readily; the state or quality of being inflammable.
• BURGLARY
  Breaking and entering the dwelling house of another, in the nighttime, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felonious purpose be accomplished or not. Wharton. Burrill. Note: By statute law in some of the United States, burglary