1. (superl.) Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious.

2. (superl.) Gay; merry; festal.

3. (n.) One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.

4. (n.) A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day.

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