tawdriness

Questions about tawdriness

What does tawdriness mean?

tawdriness means "tasteless showiness".

How many syllables are in tawdriness?

tawdriness has 3 syllables: taw-dri-ness. The stress falls on "taw".

What is another word for tawdriness?

Close synonyms include flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, loudness, brashness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tawdriness a common word?

tawdriness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.