Campy

Quick meaning: Campy is an adjective meaning Characterized by camp or kitsch, especially when deliberate or intentional.

Meaning

Characterized by camp or kitsch, especially when deliberate or intentional.

Example Sentences

Stu liked to watch campy B-movie horror flicks from the 1950s, not because they scared him, but because he found them funny.

Poison Ivy captures the essence of "Batman and Robin," a wild, campy costume party of a movie and the first "Batman" to suggest that somewhere in Gotham City there might be a Studio 54.

It no longer worked, culturally or financially, to be either snooty or campy about lowbrow culture; at the same time its mediation of highbrow culture no longer counted for much either.

A campy science-fiction/horror musical whose characters include the cross-dressing mad scientist Dr. Frank-N-Furter, it had been developing a following for its Friday and Saturday midnight showings for several months.

Word Forms

• campier
• campiest

Synonyms for campy

Depending on context, synonyms include camp, corny, hammy, sill, tawdry, vulgar.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tasteless, funky, campish, kitschy, camplike, kitsch.

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