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Distasteful vs Gaudiness - What's the difference?

distasteful | gaudiness |

As a adjective distasteful

is having a bad or foul taste.

As a noun gaudiness is

pretension in appearance; looking overly done and distastefully adorned.

distasteful

English

Alternative forms

* distastefull (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having a bad or foul taste.
  • (figuratively) Unpleasant.
  • *, chapter=12
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
  • Offensive.

    • Antonyms

    * pleasant, pleasing

    gaudiness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Pretension in appearance; looking overly done and distastefully adorned.
  • :Nearby residents don't want any gaudiness in the building's renovation, they want it to be tasteful and understated.

    • Related terms

    * gaudy