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meretricious
Overview of adj meretricious
The adj meretricious has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. meretricious -- (like or relating to a prostitute; "meretricious relationships")
2. brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy -- (tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments")
3. gilded, meretricious, specious -- (based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument")
Grep of noun meretricious
meretriciousness
Antonyms of adj meretricious
2 of 3 senses of meretricious
Sense 2
brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy
INDIRECT (VIA tasteless) -> tasteful
Sense 3
gilded, meretricious, specious
INDIRECT (VIA insincere) -> sincere
Similarity of adj meretricious
3 senses of meretricious
Sense 1
meretricious
Pertains to noun prostitute (Sense 1)
=>prostitute, cocotte, whore, harlot, bawd, tart, cyprian, fancy woman, working girl, sporting lady, lady of pleasure, woman of the street
=> woman, adult female
Sense 2
brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy
=> tasteless (vs. tasteful)
Sense 3
gilded, meretricious, specious
=> insincere (vs. sincere)
Pertainyms of adj meretricious
1 of 3 senses of meretricious
Sense 1
meretricious
Pertains to noun prostitute (Sense 1)
=>prostitute, cocotte, whore, harlot, bawd, tart, cyprian, fancy woman, working girl, sporting lady, lady of pleasure, woman of the street
=> woman, adult female
Attributes of adj meretricious
Domain of adj meretricious
1 of 3 senses of meretricious
Sense 1
meretricious
USAGE>(noun) archaism#1, archaicism#1
Domain Terms of adj meretricious
Familiarity of adj meretricious
meretricious used as an adjective is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Grep of adj meretricious
meretricious
Grep of adv meretricious
meretriciously
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