adj
trinkety
Trinkety (adj) means looking like a cheap, showy trinket; gaudy and worthless.
adj
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Looking like a cheap, showy trinket; gaudy and worthless.
"Goodbye to Word’s prim rulers, its officious yardsticks, its self-serious formatting toolbar with cryptic abbreviations (ComicSansMS?) and trinkety icons."
— Virginia Heffernan, An Interface of One’s Own (2008)
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Etymology
Formed from trinket and -y.
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What is the meaning of trinkety?
"trinkety" (adj) means looking like a cheap, showy trinket; gaudy and worthless.
What is the opposite of trinkety?
Opposites of "trinkety" include low-key, bare, simple, austere, valuable.
