tinselly

1. 1.

   glittering with gold or silver

   Synonymsclinquanttinseled

   Similaradorned

Questions about tinselly

What does tinselly mean?

tinselly means "glittering with gold or silver".

How many syllables are in tinselly?

tinselly has 3 syllables and divides as tin-sel-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for tinselly?

Close synonyms include clinquant, tinseled. 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.