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- Dictionarymer·e·tri·cious/merəˈtriSHəs/
adjective
- 1. apparently attractive but having in reality no value or integrity: "meretricious souvenirs for the tourist trade"
- 2. relating to or characteristic of a prostitute. archaic
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Meretricious means falsely attractive, superficially significant, or relating to a prostitute. Learn its origin, synonyms, examples, and related words from the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
Meretricious means seeming attractive but really false or of little value. Learn how to use this formal adjective with synonyms, related words and phrases, and examples from the Cambridge English Corpus and the Hansard archive.
Definitions of meretricious. adjective. tastelessly showy. “a meretricious yet stylish book” synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, glitzy, loud, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy. tasteless. lacking aesthetic or social taste. adjective. based on pretense; deceptively pleasing. “ meretricious praise” “a meretricious argument”
Meretricious definition: alluring by a show of flashy or vulgar attractions; tawdry. . See examples of MERETRICIOUS used in a sentence.
Meretricious means seeming attractive but really false or of little value. Learn how to use this formal adjective in sentences and find related words and phrases in the Cambridge Dictionary.
Meretricious means showy, gaudy, tawdry, or based on pretense. It can also mean relating to prostitutes or prostitution. See examples, translations, and related words.
Definition of meretricious adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
