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Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having in reality no value or substance; falsely alluring.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: specious
Antonyms: none provided
Involving unlawful sexual connection or lack of consent by at least one party (said of a romantic relationship).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Of, or relating to prostitutes or prostitution.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
like or relating to a prostitute
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- meretricious relationships
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
5
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility
- meretricious praise
- a meretricious argument
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: gilded, specious
Antonyms: none provided
6
adjective satellite
Meaning 6
tastelessly showy
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a flash car
- a flashy ring
- garish colors
- a gaudy costume
- loud sport shirts
- a meretricious yet stylish book
- tawdry ornaments
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy
Antonyms: none provided
From Latin meretrīcius, from meretrīx (“harlot, prostitute”), from mereō (“earn, deserve, merit”) (English merit) + -trīx (“(female agent)”) (English -trix).
Across languages
Translations
38 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
безвкусен
(bezvkusen)
— tastelessly gaudy
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Bulgarian:
показен
(pokazen)
— tastelessly gaudy
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Chinese Mandarin:
艳俗的
— tastelessly gaudy
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Dutch:
schoonschijnend
— tastelessly gaudy
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Dutch:
wansmakelijk
— tastelessly gaudy
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Finnish:
pramea
— tastelessly gaudy
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Finnish:
koreileva
— tastelessly gaudy
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French:
spécieux
— tastelessly gaudy
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French:
de mauvais goût
— tastelessly gaudy
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German:
protzig
— tastelessly gaudy
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German:
großspurig
— tastelessly gaudy
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German:
ordinär
— tastelessly gaudy
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German:
großkotzig
— tastelessly gaudy
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Hungarian:
talmi
— tastelessly gaudy
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Hungarian:
felszínes
— tastelessly gaudy
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Hungarian:
hivalkodó
— tastelessly gaudy
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Hungarian:
ízléstelen
— tastelessly gaudy
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Hungarian:
csicsás
— tastelessly gaudy
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Japanese:
けばけばしい
(kebakebashii)
— tastelessly gaudy
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Korean:
저속한
(jeosokhan)
— tastelessly gaudy
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Polish:
krzykliwy
— tastelessly gaudy
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Polish:
bałamutny
— tastelessly gaudy
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Polish:
zwodniczy
— tastelessly gaudy
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Ukrainian:
показний
(pokaznyj)
— tastelessly gaudy
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Ukrainian:
дешевий
(deševyj)
— tastelessly gaudy
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Ukrainian:
позбавлений смаку
(pozbavlenyj smaku)
— tastelessly gaudy
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Catalan:
meretrici
— of, or relating to prostitutes
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Dutch:
opzichtig
— of, or relating to prostitutes
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Dutch:
hoerachtig
— of, or relating to prostitutes
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French:
racoleur
— of, or relating to prostitutes
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French:
putassier
— of, or relating to prostitutes
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German:
dirnenhaft
— of, or relating to prostitutes
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Latin:
meretrīcius
— of, or relating to prostitutes
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Manx:
streebeeagh
— of, or relating to prostitutes
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Polish:
prostytucyjny
— of, or relating to prostitutes
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Serbo-Croatian:
kurvinski
— of, or relating to prostitutes
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Spanish:
meretricio
— of, or relating to prostitutes
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Ukrainian:
розпусний
(rozpusnyj)
— of, or relating to prostitutes
