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gaudiness

gaudiness noun: pretension in appearance; looking overly and distastefully adorned.

Noun

gaudiness (countable and uncountable, plural gaudinesses)

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

gaudiness meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

gaudiness in Tamil

கோப்பு, குசால், சோர்

gaudiness in Urdu

رنگینی

gaudiness in Bengali

বাহ্যিক রূপে ভনিতা

Forms of gaudiness

pluralgaudinesses

Origin of gaudiness

From gaudy + -ness.

Questions about gaudiness

What does gaudiness mean?
Gaudiness means pretension in appearance; looking overly and distastefully adorned.
What is gaudiness in Tamil?
Gaudiness in Tamil is கோப்பு, குசால், சோர். See Gaudiness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is gaudiness?
Gaudiness is a noun.
What is the plural of gaudiness?
The plural of gaudiness is gaudinesses.

Words near gaudiness in the dictionary

  1. gaudifying
  2. gaudily
  3. gaudimycin
  4. gaudimycins
  5. Gaudin
  6. gaudiness
  7. gaudinesses
  8. gauding
  9. Gaudino
  10. Gaudinos
  11. Gaudins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gaudiness (page history and authors); gaudiness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gaudiness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gaudiness (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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