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gilded (root: gild)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective gilded has 4 senses
- gilded(s = adj.all) aureate, gilt, gold, golden - having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet"
- gilded(s = adj.all) meretricious, specious - based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"
- gilded(s = adj.all) deluxe, grand, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous - rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded dining rooms"
- gilded(s = adj.all) gold, golden - made from or covered with gold; "gold coins"; "the gold dome of the Capitol"; "the golden calf"; "gilded icons"
THESAURUS
gilded
apparent, aureate, auric, beige, buff, buff-yellow, canary, canary-yellow, citron, citron-yellow, colorable, colored, cream, creamy, ecru, fallow, flaxen, gilt, gold, gold-colored, golden, lemon, lemon-yellow, luteolous, lutescent, meretricious, ocherish, ocherous, ochery, ochreous, ochroid, ochrous, ochry, or, ostensible, plausible, primrose, primrose-colored, primrose-yellow, saffron, saffron-colored, saffron-yellow, sallow, sand-colored, sandy, seeming, specious, straw, straw-colored, tinsel, xanthic, xanthous, yellow, yellowish
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