Need another word that means the same as “tacky”? Find 25 synonyms and 30 related words for “tacky” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Tacky” are: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tatty, tawdry, trashy, sticky, wet, gluey, gummy, glutinous, adhesive, viscous, viscid, treacly, syrupy, runny, clinging, sticking
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “tacky” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| adhesive | Able to stick fast to a surface or object; sticky. An adhesive label. |
| brassy | Unrestrained by convention or propriety. Audience members are tapping their feet to the brassy music of the band. |
| cheap | Inexpensive because of inferior quality. Cheap shoddy goods. |
| clinging | Too dependent on someone emotionally. She wasn t the clinging type. |
| flash | Relating to the language used by criminals or prostitutes. A flash new car. |
| flashy | Marked by conspicuous display. He always had a flashy car. |
| garish | Tastelessly showy. Garish shirts in all sorts of colours. |
| gaudy | Tastelessly showy. A gaudy costume. |
| gimcrack | Tastelessly showy. Plastic gimcrack cookware. |
| gluey | Having a sticky consistency. Gluey brown paste. |
| glutinous | Like glue in texture; sticky. Glutinous mud. |
| gummy | Covered with or exuding a viscous substance. His gummy eyes. |
| loud | Used chiefly as a direction or description in music loud with force. His voice is loud and challenging. |
| meretricious | Based on pretense; deceptively pleasing. Meretricious praise. |
| runny | (of a person’s nose) producing or discharging mucus. The souffl was hard on top and quite runny underneath. |
| sticking | Extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary. A pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck. |
| sticky | Having the sticky properties of an adhesive. The relationship is going through a sticky patch. |
| syrupy | Having the consistency or sweetness of syrup. A particularly syrupy moment from a corny film. |
| tatty | Showing signs of wear and tear. The generally tatty output of the current Celtic revival. |
| treacly | Overly sweet. A treacly black fuel. |
| viscid | Having the sticky properties of an adhesive. The viscid mucus lining of the intestine. |
| viscous | Having the sticky properties of an adhesive. Viscous lava. |
| wet | Producing or secreting milk. Wet sidewalks. |
| adherence | The property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition. He moved to Avignon and won the adherence of the French king. |
| adhesion | A fibrous band of scar tissue that binds together normally separate anatomical structures. The adhesion of Seville was decisive. |
| adhesive | Tending to adhere. Tile adhesive. |
| bogus | Not genuine or true (used in a disapproving manner when deception has been attempted. A bogus insurance claim. |
| cheap | Relatively low in price or charging low prices. It would have been cheap at twice the price. |
| dabbler | Any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and dabbling. |
| dilettante | A person with an amateur interest in the arts. A wealthy literary dilettante. |
| dishonest | Intended to mislead or cheat. Dishonest politicians. |
| epoxy | Glue with epoxy. Epoxy cement. |
| factitious | Artificially created or developed. A largely factitious national identity. |
| gaudy | (Britain) a celebratory reunion feast or entertainment held a college. Silver bows and gaudy ribbons. |
| glue | Join or attach with or as if with glue. The wood is cut into pieces which are then glued together. |
| glutinous | Having the sticky properties of an adhesive. Glutinous mud. |
| gum | Cover fill fix or smear with or as if with gum. Open and close the valves to make sure they don t get gummed up. |
| insincere | Lacking sincerity. Their praise was extravagant and insincere. |
| meretricious | Relating to or characteristic of a prostitute. Meretricious praise. |
| mucous | Relating to, producing, covered with, or of the nature of mucus. Mucous glands of the intestine. |
| pitchy | Like or as dark as pitch. |
| primer | Any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant. No more than four pumps of the primer usually suffice. |
| shoddy | Cheap and shoddy Judith Crist. We re not paying good money for shoddy goods. |
| slimy | Morally reprehensible. A slimy cigar puffing political fixer. |
| specious | Plausible but false. A specious claim. |
| spurious | (of offspring) illegitimate. Spurious inferences. |
| sticker | A determined or persistent person. Warning stickers on the glass. |
| sticky | Having the sticky properties of an adhesive. She felt hot and sticky and changed her clothes. |
| tape | A recording made on magnetic tape. They put four songs on tape. |
| viscid | Having the sticky properties of an adhesive. The viscid mucus lining of the intestine. |
| viscosity | Resistance of a liquid to shear forces (and hence to flow. Cooling the fluid raises its viscosity. |
| viscous | Having a relatively high resistance to flow. Viscous lava. |
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