kitschy

English

Etymology

From kitsch +‎ -y. Compare German kitschig (“kitschy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɪt͡ʃi/

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• Rhymes: -ɪtʃi

Adjective

kitschy (comparative kitschier, superlative kitschiest)

1. Having the nature of kitsch: excessively sentimental, overdone or vulgar.
   • 2004 May 10, The New Yorker:

     This is what his admirers go for: the gravelly grain of his film stock, the crowded monochrome of his compositions (the new film is mostly in black-and-white, with kitschy spasms of color), and the way in which light bounces and breathes from the faces of his players.

   • 2016 November 25, “Photographer David Hamilton found dead in Paris”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Hamilton said that his work looked for the “candour of a lost paradise”, and was most famous for his kitschy calendars of young girls and his soft-focus erotic films including “Bilitis” from 1977.

Synonyms

• corny

Translations

having the nature of kitsch

• Bulgarian: кичозен (kičozen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 俗氣ぞくき／俗ぞく气 (zh) (súqì), 粗そ俗ぞく (zh) (cūsú)

• Czech: kýčovitý
• Esperanto: kiĉa
• Estonian: kitšilik
• Finnish: kitsahtava
• French: kitsch (fr)
• German: kitschig (de)
• Greek: κιτς (el) n (kits)
• Hebrew: קיטשי (he) (kítchi)
• Hungarian: giccses (hu)
• Italian: kitsch (it), tamarro (it)
• Japanese: キッチュな, 低俗ていぞくな (ja) (ていぞくな, teizoku na)
• Korean: 키치하다 (kichihada)
• Polish: kiczowaty (pl)
• Portuguese: kitsch (pt), brega (pt)
• Russian: ки́тчевый (ru) (kítčevyj)
• Slovak: gýčový, gýčovitý
• Spanish: kitsch (es), cursi (es)
• Swedish: kitschig
• Ukrainian: кітчевий (uk) (kitčevyj)

Anagrams

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