- tinsel
- n1. spangle, clinquant, metallic yarn.2. ostentation, show, gilding, frippery, affectation, Archaic. frounce; falseness, unreality, make-believe, pinchbeck, sham, hypocrisy; pretentiousness, Sl. dog, airs, artificiality, pretension; pomp, glitter, display, spectacle; ornateness, flamboyance, gaudiness, garishness, floridity; frivolity, triviality, insignificance, meaninglessness, unimportance, hollowness, shallowness.adj3. ostentatious, showy, gaudy, garish, flashy, flamboyant; clinquant, glittering, sparkling, ornate; loud, conspicuous, glaring; tawdry, meretricious, Inf. honky-tonk, cheap, slick, second-rate, dime-store; trashy, gimcrack, Inf. chintzy, Inf. tacky, Sl. rinky-dink, tasteless, indelicate, unsubtle; pretentious, affected, artificial, surface, skin-deep; imitation, fake, false, pinchbeck, Inf. phony, counterfeit, sham; shallow, hollow, frivolous, trivial, insignificant, unimportant; meaningless, worthless, valueless, insubstantial, aimless.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.