Word Meanings - MERETRICIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
prostitute, lit., one who earns money, i. e., by prostitution, fr. 1. Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic. 2. Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully
Additional info about word: MERETRICIOUS
prostitute, lit., one who earns money, i. e., by prostitution, fr. 1. Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic. 2. Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; as, meretricious dress or ornaments. -- Mer`e*tri"cious*ly, adv. -- Mer`e*tri"cious*ness, n.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MERETRICIOUS)
- Florid
- Rubicund
- flowery
- sanguine
- ornate
- overwrought
- meretricious
- Gaudy
- Tawdry
- fine
- bespangled
- glittering
- showy
- gay
- garish
- Showy
- flashy
- tinsel
- gaudy
- Theatrical
- Dramatic
- melodramatic
- ceremonious
- gesticulatory
- pompous
Related words: (words related to MERETRICIOUS)
- FLOWERY-KIRTLED
Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton. - FLOWERY
1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China. - FLORIDA BEAN
The large, roundish, flattened seed of Mucuna urens. See under Bean. One of the very large seeds of the Entada scandens. - TAWDRY
A necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St. Audrey's fair; hence, a necklace in general. Of which the Naiads and the blue Nereids make Them tawdries for their necks. Drayton. - CEREMONIOUSLY
In a ceremonious way. - FLORIDNESS
The quality of being florid. Boyle. - GESTICULATORY
Representing by, or belonging to, gestures. T. Warton. - SANGUINENESS
The quality of being sanguine. - ORNATE
1. Adorned; decorated; beautiful. "So bedecked, ornate, and gay." Milton. 2. Finely finished, as a style of composition. A graceful and ornate rhetoric. Milton. - SANGUINELESS
Destitute of blood; pale. - SANGUINE
1. Having the color of blood; red. Of his complexion he was sanguine. Chaucer. Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe. Milton. 2. Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood; as, a sanguine bodily temperament. - FLORIDITY
The quality of being florid; floridness. Floyer. - POMPOUS
1. Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession. 2. Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style. "Pompous in high presumption." Chaucer. he pompous vanity of the - MERETRICIOUS
prostitute, lit., one who earns money, i. e., by prostitution, fr. 1. Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic. 2. Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully - GLITTER
A bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage. Milton. - THEATRICAL
Of or pertaining to a theater, or to the scenic representations; resembling the manner of dramatic performers; histrionic; hence, artificial; as, theatrical performances; theatrical gestures. -- The*at`ri*cal"i*ty, n. -- The*at"ric*al*ly, adv. No - BESPANGLE
To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering. The grass . . . is all bespangled with dewdrops. Cowper. - GARISH
1. Showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting attention. "The garish sun." "A garish flag." Shak. "In . . . garish colors." Asham. "The garish day." J. H. Newman. Garish like the laughters of drunkenness. Jer. Taylor. 2. Gay - FLORIDLY
In a florid manner. - FLORID
Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations. (more info) 1. Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery. Fruit from a pleasant and florid tree. - CONSANGUINED
Of kin blood; related. Johnson. - AMPHITHEATRICALLY
In the form or manner of an amphitheater. - EXSANGUINEOUS
Destitute of blood; anæmic; exsanguious. - AGLITTER
Clittering; in a glitter.