gilded has definitions from the field of color
1
[ adjective ] (color) having the deep slightly brownish color of gold

Synonyms

golden gilt gold aureate

Examples

"long aureate (or golden) hair" "a gold carpet"

Used in print

(Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)

She leaned unconcerned against the broken porch fence , brushing and drying her wet , gilded hair in the sun .

Related terms

chromatic

2
[ adjective ] based on pretense; deceptively pleasing

Examples

"the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility" "meretricious praise" "a meretricious argument"

Related terms

insincere

3
[ adjective ] rich and superior in quality

Examples

"a princely sum" "gilded dining rooms"

Related terms

rich

4
[ adjective ] made from or covered with gold

Synonyms

gold golden

Examples

"gold coins" "the gold dome of the Capitol" "the golden calf" "gilded icons"

Related terms

metallic

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