TACKY meaning: Lacking style or good taste

We found 34 dictionaries that define the word tacky:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

tacky: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tacky: Merriam-Webster
tacky, tacky: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
tacky, tacky: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
tacky: Collins English Dictionary
tacky: Vocabulary.com
Tacky, tacky: Wordnik
tacky: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
tacky: Wiktionary
tacky: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
tacky: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
tacky: Infoplease Dictionary
tacky: Dictionary.com
tacky (1), tacky (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
tacky: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Tacky (song), Tacky: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Tacky: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
tacky: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
tacky: Rhymezone
tacky: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
tacky: FreeDictionary.org
tacky: Mnemonic Dictionary
Tacky: The Word Detective
tacky: TheFreeDictionary.com
Tacky: World Wide Words

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

tacky: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
tacky: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)

tacky, tacky, tacky: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
tacky: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
tacky: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

Oil Analysis (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  Of a substance, slightly sticky.
▸ adjective:  (colloquial) Of low quality.
▸ adjective:  (colloquial) In poor taste.
▸ adjective:  Gaudy or flashy.
▸ adjective:  Shabby, dowdy in one's appearance or dress.
▸ noun:  Alternative form of tackey [(US, Southern US) A scrubby, neglected horse.]

Similar:

brassy, wet, flash, tawdry, tatty, trashy, gimcrack, loud, cheap, gaudy, more...

Opposite:

elegant, sophisticated, classy, refined, tasteful

Types:

gaudy, tawdry, garish, kitsch, loud, brash, tasteless, vulgar, more...

Phrases:

ticky tacky, most tacky, tacky art, opposite of tacky, tacky sticky, more...

Adjectives:

little, plain, ticky, real, dry, pretty

Colors:

neon green, hot pink, electric blue, lime green, bright orange, more...