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| Main Entry: | chintzy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cheap-looking |
| Synonyms: | cheap, frowzy, shabby, sleazy, tacky, schlocky |
| Main Entry: | flashy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flamboyant, in poor taste |
| Synonyms: | blatant, brazen, cheap, chintzy, flaunting, florid, garish, gaudy, glaring, glittering, jazzy*, loud, meretricious, ornate, ostentatious, showy, snazzy, sparkling, tacky*, tasteless, tawdry, vulgar, catchpenny, glittery, glitzy, tinsel |
| Antonyms: | plain, simple, subdued, tasteful, unobtrusive, unflamboyant, unflashy, ungaudy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | garish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flashy, tasteless |
| Synonyms: | blatant, brassy, brazen, cheap, chintzy, flaunting, gaudy, glaring, glittering, loud, meretricious, ornate, ostentatious, overdone, overwrought, raffish, showy, tawdry, vulgar, kitschy, screaming, tinsel |
| Antonyms: | discreet, modest, normal, plain, tasteful |
| Main Entry: | gaudy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bright and vulgar |
| Synonyms: | blatant, brazen, brilliant, chichi*, chintzy, coarse, crude, flashy, flaunting, florid, garish, gay, glaring, gross, jazzy, loud, meretricious, obtrusive, ostentatious, pizzazz*, pretentious, raffish, ritzy, showy, snazzy, splashy, tasteless, tawdry, catchpenny, frou-frou, gussied up, kitschy, putting on the ritz, screaming, splendiferous, tinsel |
| Antonyms: | calm, drab, dull, modest, plain, refined, simple, sophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | meretricious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gaudy, flashy |
| Synonyms: | blatant, bogus, brazen, chintzy, counterfeit, garish, glaring, insincere, loud, misleading, ornate, phony, plastic*, sham, showy, spurious, superficial, tawdry, trashy, put-on, tinsel |
| Notes: | meretricious means of or pertaining to prostitutes - alluring by vulgar or flashy display - based on pretense or insincerity; meritorious means deserving reward or praise |
| Antonyms: | genuine, real, unembellished, undecorated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | parsimonious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | penny-pinching |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, chintzy*, close, frugal, greedy, illiberal, mean, miserly, penurious, prudent, saving, selfish, skinflint*, sparing, stingy*, tight*, tightfisted*, tightwad*, scrimpy |
| Antonyms: | generous, lavish, liberal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | penurious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stingy |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, cheap, chintzy*, economical, frugal, greedy, miserly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, saving, sparing, thrifty, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous, close-fisted, costive, curmudgeonly, hoarding, pennywise, pinchpenny, scrimping, ungiving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stingy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | penny-pinching, averse to spending money |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, chary, cheap, chintzy*, churlish, close, covetous, economical, extortionate, frugal, grasping, greedy, ignoble, illiberal, mean, miserly, narrow, near, parsimonious, penurious, petty, rapacious, saving, selfish, sordid, sparing, thrifty, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous, close-fisted, costive, curmudgeonly, grudging, ironfisted, pennywise, pinchpenny, scrimping, scurvy, skimping, ungiving |
| Antonyms: | generous, spendthrift, wasteful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tawdry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cheap, tasteless |
| Synonyms: | blatant, brazen, chintzy*, common, crude, dirty, flashy, flaunting, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, glaring, glittering, jazzy, loud, meretricious, obtrusive, offensive, plastic, poor, raffish, showy, sleazy*, sporty, tacky*, vulgar, flaring, glitzy, junky, screaming, tinsel |
| Antonyms: | nice, sophisticated, tasteful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | thrifty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | economical |
| Synonyms: | canny, careful, chary, cheap, chintzy*, close*, frugal, mean, parsimonious, penny-pinching, provident, prudent, saving, sparing, steal, stingy*, tight*, close-fisted, conserving, preserving, scrimpy, unwasteful |
| Antonyms: | extravagant, spendthrift, wasteful, uneconomical |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tightfisted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cheap |
| Synonyms: | chintzy*, closefisted, economical, frugal, greedy, mean, miserly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, saving, stingy, thrifty, tight*, tightwad*, ungenerous, mingy, money-conscious, pennywise, pinchpenny, scrimping |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | Mickey Mouse |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | of little importance |
| Synonyms: | chintzy, shoddy, tacky, glitzy, in poor taste, rinky-dink |
| Main Entry: | glaring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bright, dazzling; flashy |
| Synonyms: | blatant, blazing, brazen, chintzy, florid, garish, gaudy, glowing, loud, meretricious, shining, tawdry, blinding |
| Antonyms: | dark, dull, plain |
| Main Entry: | loud |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | offensive, gaudy |
| Synonyms: | brash, brassy, brazen, chintzy, coarse, crass, crude, flamboyant, flashy, garish, glaring, gross, lurid, meretricious, obnoxious, obtrusive, ostentatious, raucous, rude, showy, tasteless, tawdry, vulgar |
| Antonyms: | inoffensive, quiet, soft, tasteful |
| Main Entry: | close |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stingy |
| Synonyms: | chintzy*, closefisted, illiberal, mean, miserly, narrow, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, skimpy, skinflint*, tight, ungenerous, mingy, niggardly, tight-fisted |
| Antonyms: | generous, giving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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