gilded

[gild]

Something gilded looks like gold, whether it is or not. If you've heard the expression "all that glitters is not gold," it's especially true of anything gilded.

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Adjective S.
having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet"

Adjective S.
made from or covered with gold; "gold coins"; "the gold dome of the Capitol"; "the golden calf"; "gilded icons"

Adjective S.
rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded dining rooms"

Adjective S.
based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"

imp. & p. p.
of Gild

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Usage Examples

For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda.

But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us that's the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time.

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.