tawdrier
Meaning of tawdrier
- showy but cheap and of poor quality.
tawdry jewellery
early 17th century: short for tawdry lace, a fine silk lace or ribbon worn as a necklace in the 16th–17th centuries, contraction of St Audrey's lace : Audrey was a later form of Etheldrida (died 679), patron saint of Ely where tawdry laces, along with cheap imitations and other cheap finery, were traditionally sold at a fair.
Information about tawdrier
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of tawdrier
taw-drier
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- tawdrier is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
tawdrier synonyms
Meaning extravagantly bright or showy, typically so as to be tasteless:
Meaning ostentatiously attractive or impressive:
Meaning having a striking appearance or style, typically by being excessively bright, colourful, or ostentatious:
Meaning obtrusively bright and showy; lurid:
Meaning producing or capable of producing much noise:
Meaning considered to be lacking in aesthetic judgement or to constitute inappropriate behaviour:
Meaning lacking sophistication or good taste:
Meaning having an ostentatious or tasteless appearance:
Meaning showing no intelligence or sensitivity:
Meaning (especially of items of popular culture) of poor quality:
Meaning useless or of little value:
Meaning low in price, especially in relation to similar items or services:
Meaning of inferior quality:
Meaning (of an amount) very small or meagre:
Meaning having no real value or use:
Meaning badly made or done:
Meaning in poor condition through long use or lack of care:
Meaning apparently attractive but having no real value:
Meaning made of plastic:
Meaning showy but cheap or badly made:
Meaning relating to Birmingham or the dialect of English spoken there:
Meaning ostentatiously stylish or expensive:
Meaning worn and shabby; in poor condition:
Meaning (of glue, paint, or other substances) not fully dry and retaining a slightly sticky feel:
Meaning considered to be in poor taste but appreciated in an ironic or knowing way:
Meaning of poor quality and little value:
tawdrier antonyms
Meaning showing good aesthetic judgement or appropriate behaviour:
Meaning with impurities or unwanted elements having been removed by processing:
Words that rhyme with tawdrier
rier, Darier, blearier, charier, drearier, flarier, glarier, harier, hoarier, learier, oarier, ordinarier, roarier, scarier, skearier, smearier, snarier, spearier, squarier, sugarier, tearier, unwarier, varier, warier, wearier, Brier, Chabrier, Greenbrier, brier, bullbrier, catbrier, greenbrier, horsebrier, imbrier, shambrier, sweetbrier, crier, decrier, descrier, outcrier, sucrier, undercrier, drier, hairdrier, madrier, aerier, beerier, blisterier, blusterier, brierier