Gaudy vs Lavish - What's the difference?
gaudy | lavish |
very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner
* Shakespeare
* 1813 , , Pride and Prejudice
* 1887 , Homer Greene, Burnham Breaker
* 2005 , Thomas Hauser & Marilyn Cole Lownes, "How Bling-bling Took Over the Ring", The Observer , 9 January 2005
(obsolete) gay; merry; festive
* Shakespeare
* Twain
One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.
A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally held during the summer vacations.
Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:
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Superabundant; excessive; as, lavish spirits.
* 1623 , (William Shakespeare), (Measure for Measure) Act 2 Scene 2
To expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality; to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.
As adjectives the difference between gaudy and lavish
is that gaudy is very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner while lavish is expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal.As a noun gaudy
is one of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.As a verb lavish is
to expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality; to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.gaudy
English
Etymology 1
Origin uncertain; perhaps from . A common claim that the word derives from , is not supported by evidence (the word was in use at least half a century before Gaudà was born).Adjective
(er)- Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, / But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy .
- The rooms were lofty and handsome, and their furniture suitable to the fortune of its proprietor; but Elizabeth saw, with admiration of his taste, that it was neither gaudy nor uselessly fine; with less of splendour, and more real elegance, than the furniture of Rosings.
- A large gaudy , flowing cravat, and an ill-used silk hat, set well back on the wearer's head, completed this somewhat noticeable costume.
- Gaudy jewellery might offend some people's sense of style. But former heavyweight champion and grilling-machine entrepreneur George Foreman is philosophical about today's craze for bling-bling.
- (Tennyson)
- Let's have one other gaudy night.
- And then, there he was, slim and handsome, and dressed the gaudiest and prettiest you ever saw...
Synonyms
* (excessively showy) tawdry, flashy, garish, kitschy *Derived terms
* gaudily * gaudy nightNoun
(gaudies)- (Gower)
Etymology 2
From Latin gaudium "joy".Noun
(gaudies)lavish
English
Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l) (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.
- Let her haue needfull, but not lauish meanes