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Adjectives (12)
spurious, meretricious, specious
adj. based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"
gilt, gold, golden, aureate
adj. having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet"
deluxe, luxurious, princely, opulent, sumptuous
adj. rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded dining rooms"
Fuzzynyms (91)
artificial, unreal
adj. contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners"
fair, sandy, flaxen
adj. of hair color; pale yellowish to yellowish brown; "flaxen locks"
elegant
adj. refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style; "elegant handwriting"; "an elegant dark suit"; "she was elegant to her fingertips"; "small churches with elegant white spires"; "an elegant mathematical solution--simple and precise and lucid"
charming
adj. pleasing or delighting; "endowed with charming manners"; "a charming little cottage"; "a charming personality"
civilized, polite, cultivated, cultured, genteel
adj. marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"
gracious
adj. characterized by charm, good taste, and generosity of spirit; "gracious even to unexpected visitors"; "gracious living"; "he bears insult with gracious good humor"
lavish, unsparing, munificent, overgenerous, unstinted, unstinting, too generous
adj. very generous; "distributed gifts with a lavish hand"; "the critics were lavish in their praise"; "a munificent gift"; "his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent"; "prodigal praise"; "unsparing generosity"; "his unstinted devotion"; "called for unstinting aid to Britain"
beneficent, benevolent, eleemosynary, philanthropic
adj. generous in assistance to the poor; "a benevolent contributor"; "eleemosynary relief"; "philanthropic contributions"
big, large, magnanimous
adj. generous and understanding and tolerant; "a heart big enough to hold no grudges"; "that's very big of you to be so forgiving"; "a large and generous spirit"; "a large heart"; "magnanimous toward his enemies"
lush, exuberant, luxuriant, profuse, riotous, teeming, teeming with
adj. produced or growing in extreme abundance; "their riotous blooming"
swish, classy, posh
adj. elegant and fashionable; "classy clothes"; "a classy dame"; "a posh restaurant"; "a swish pastry shop on the Rue du Bac"- Julia Child
sensuous, sensual, sensational
adj. affecting or derived from the senses: "sensual perception"; "the immediacies of sensuous or emotional experience"
delightful, delicious
adj. greatly pleasing or entertaining; "a delightful surprise"; "the comedy was delightful"; "a delicious joke"
expensive
adj. high in price or charging high prices; "expensive clothes"; "an expensive shop"
glorious, magnificent, resplendent, splendid, splendiferous
adj. having great beauty and splendor; "a glorious spring morning"; "a glorious sunset"; "splendid costumes"; "a kind of splendiferous native simplicity"
supreme, superb
adj. highest in excellence or achievement; "supreme among musicians"; "a supreme endxxeavor"; "supreme courage"
marvelous, marvellous, rattling, fantastic, tremendous, howling, phenomenal, terrific, wonderful, wondrous
adj. extraordinarily good; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement"
applaudable, commendable, laudable, praiseworthy
adj. worthy of high praise; "applaudable efforts to save the environment"; "a commendable sense of purpose"; "laudable motives of improving housing conditions"; "a significant and praiseworthy increase in computer intelligence"
giving, liberal, big, handsome, bountiful, bounteous, openhanded, free-handed, big-hearted
adj. given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather"
flush, affluent, loaded, moneyed, wealthy
adj. having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value; "an affluent banker"; "a speculator flush with cash"; "not merely rich but loaded"; "moneyed aristocrats"; "wealthy corporations"
ample
adj. more than enough in size or scope or capacity; "had ample food for the party"; "an ample supply"
copious, extensive
adj. large in number or quantity (especially of discourse); "she took copious notes"; "a subject of voluminous legislation"
plentiful
adj. existing in great number or quantity; "rhinoceroses were once plentiful here"
easy, prosperous, comfortable, substantial, well-off, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-situated, well-to-do
adj. in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich; "they were comfortable or even wealthy by some standards"; "easy living"; "a prosperous family"; "his family is well-situated financially"; "well-to-do members of the community"
Synonyms (175)
obsequious, bootlicking, fawning, sycophantic, toadyish
adj. attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
buttery, fulsome, smarmy, unctuous
adj. unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep"; "soapy compliments"
Janus-faced, two-faced, deceitful, double-faced, hypocritical, double-tongued
adj. professing feelings or virtues one does not have; "hypocritical praise"
dissembling, dissimulating, dissimulative
adj. concealing under a false appearance with the intent to deceive; "dissimulative arts"
hollow, false
adj. deliberately deceptive; "hollow (or false) promises"; "false pretenses"
tinted
adj. having or given a shade of color; esp a pale shade; often used in combination: "amber-tinted"
touched, tinged
adj. having come into contact
amber, brownish-yellow, yellow-brown
adj. of a medium to dark brownish yellow color
amethyst
adj. of a moderate purple color
auburn, reddish-brown
adj. (of hair) colored a moderate reddish-brown; "auburn hair"
avocado
adj. of the dull yellowish green of the meat of an avocado
azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue
adj. of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky; "October's bright blue weather"
bay
adj. (used of animals especially a horse) of a moderate reddish-brown color
beige
adj. of a light greyish-brown color
bicolor, bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome
adj. having two colors; "a bicolor flower"; "a bicolored postage stamp"
blae
adj. of bluish-black or grey-blue
blue, bluish, light-blue, dark-blue
adj. of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky; "October's bright blue weather"- Helen Hunt Jackson; "a blue flame"; "blue haze of tobacco smoke"
blushful, rosy, blush-colored, blush-coloured
adj. of blush color; "blushful mists"
bottle-green
adj. of a dark to moderate greyish green color
bronze, bronzy
adj. of the color of bronze
brown, brownish, dark-brown
adj. of a color similar to that of wood or earth
buff
adj. of the yellowish-beige color of buff leather
canary, canary-yellow
adj. having the color of a canary; of a light to moderate yellow
caramel, caramel brown
adj. having the color of caramel; of a moderate yellow-brown
carnation
adj. pink or pinkish
chartreuse
adj. of something having the yellowish green color of Chartreuse liqueur
chestnut
adj. (of hair) of a golden brown to reddish brown color; "a chestnut horse"; "chestnut hair"
coral
adj. of a strong pink to yellowish-pink color
creamy
adj. of the color of cream; "creamy translucent pebbles"
watercress, cresson, cress green
adj. of a moderate yellow-green color that is greener and deeper than moss green and yellower and darker than pea green
dun
adj. of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color; "the dun and dreary prairie"
earth-colored, earthlike, earth-coloured
adj. earth colored; of something having a color of soil or earth; "a range of earthlike colors"
fuscous
adj. of something having a dusky brownish grey color
green, greenish, light-green, dark-green
adj. of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass; "a green tree"; "green fields"; "green paint"
hazel
adj. of a light brown or yellowish brown color
honey, honey-colored, honey-coloured
adj. having the color of honey
hued
adj. used in combination; having a given hue: "rosy-hued"
khaki
adj. of a yellowish brown color
lilac, lavender
adj. of a pale purple color
magenta
adj. of deep purplish red
maroon
adj. of dark brownish to purplish red
mauve
adj. of a pale to moderate greyish violet color
motley, multicolor, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured, multicolour
adj. having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies"
mosstone, moss green
adj. of a moderate somewhat dull yellow-green color
mousy, mouse-colored, mouse-coloured
adj. of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse; "a mousy brownish-grey color"; "mousy hair"; "mouse-colored hair"
ocher, ochre
adj. of a moderate orange-yellow color
olive-brown
adj. of a brown color with a greenish tinge
olive-drab
adj. of a light brownish green color
olive
adj. of a yellow-green color similar to that of an unripe olive
orange, orangish
adj. of the color between red and yellow; similar to the color of a ripe orange
peacock-blue
adj. of bright greenish blue
pea-green
adj. of a moderate slightly yellowish-green color
pink, pinkish
adj. of a light shade of red
purple, violet, purplish
adj. of a color intermediate between red and blue
red, carmine, crimson, ruby, cerise, cherry, scarlet, blood-red, cherry-red, ruby-red
adj. of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
red, reddish
adj. (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion; "crimson with fury"; "turned red from exertion"; "with puffy reddened eyes"; "red-faced and violent"; "flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment"
rose, roseate
adj. of something having a dusty purplish pink color; "the roseate glow of dawn"
rose-red
adj. of a deep slightly bluish red color
russet
adj. of brown with a reddish tinge
rust, rusty, rust-colored, rust-coloured
adj. having the brown color of rust
sage, sage-green
adj. of the grey-green color of sage leaves
sea-green
adj. of the color of the sea; bluish green
snuff, snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-brown, snuff-colored, snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown
adj. snuff colored; of a greyish to yellowish brown
sorrel, brownish-orange
adj. of a light brownish color
stone, stone-gray
adj. of any of various dull tannish or grey colors
straw-color, straw-colored, straw-coloured
adj. having the color of dry straw
tan
adj. of a light yellowish-brown color
tangerine
adj. of a strong reddish orange color
tawny
adj. of a light brown to brownish orange color; the color of tanned leather
ultramarine
adj. of a brilliant pure blue to purplish blue color
umber
adj. of the color of any of various natural brown earth pigments
vermilion, vermillion, cinibar, Chinese red
adj. of a vivid red to reddish-orange color
yellow, yellowish
adj. of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk
yellow-green
adj. of a color midway between yellow and green
plush, lush, lavish, lucullan, plushy
adj. characterized by extravagance and profusion; "a lavish buffet"; "a lucullan feast"
Antonyms (4)
genuine
adj. not fake or counterfeit; "a genuine Picasso"; "genuine leather"
frank, genuine
adj. not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed; "genuine emotion"; "her interest in people was unfeigned"; "true grief"
poor
adj. characterized by or indicating poverty; "the country had a poor economy"; "they lived in the poor section of town"
gilded
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