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Definitions for Tacky

[1] sticky to the touch; adhesive.
[2] not tasteful or fashionable; dowdy.
[3] shabby in appearance; shoddy: a tacky, jerry-built housing development.
[4] crass; cheaply vulgar; tasteless; crude.
[5] gaudy; flashy; showy.
[6] slightly sticky or adhesive the varnish was still tacky
[7] shabby or shoddy
[8] ostentatious and vulgar
[9] US (of a person) dowdy; seedy

Words related to Tacky

gaudy, run-down, shabby, vulgar, dingy, faded, messy, seedy, threadbare, sleazy, broken-down, crude, dilapidated, dowdy, frumpy, inelegant, mangy, nasty, out-of-date, outmoded

Words nearby Tacky

tackie, tackies, tackle, tackling, tacksman, tacky, tacloban, tacmahack, tacna-arica, tacnode, taco

Origin of Tacky

21880–85, Americanism ; apparently identical with earlier tack(e)y small horse, pony, poor farmer; of obscure origin

Other words from Tacky

tack·i·ness , noun
tack·i·ness , noun

Word origin for Tacky

C19: from dialect tacky an inferior horse, of unknown origin

Synonyms for Tacky

dingy, faded, gaudy, messy, run-down, seedy, shabby, sleazy, threadbare, vulgar, broken-down, crude, dilapidated, dowdy, down-at-heel, frumpy, inelegant, mangy, nasty, out-of-date, outmoded, poky, ratty, shoddy, sloppy, slovenly, stodgy, unbecoming, unkempt, unstylish, unsuitable, untidy