16+ Synonyms for Gilded & Similar Words
Definition of gilded
- adjective
- having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet"
- based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"
- rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded dining rooms"
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