Dictionary Definition
flashy adj
1 tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy
ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a
meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn: brassy, cheap, flash, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy]
2 (used especially of clothes) marked by
conspicuous display [syn: gaudy, jazzy, showy, sporty] [also: flashiest, flashier]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /ˈflæʃi/
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- Rhymes with: -æʃi
Etymology
Adjective
- Showy; visually impressive,
attention-getting, or appealing.
- The dancers wore flashy costumes featuring shiny sequins in many vibrant colors.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Gongoresque, Johnsonian, ablaze, affected, aflame, bedizened, big-sounding,
blatant, blazing, blinding, brave, bravura, braw, brazen, burning, cheap, chichi, chintzy, convoluted, cosmetic, crude, daring, dashing, declamatory, dressy, elevated, euphuistic, exhibitionistic,
facile, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flash, flashing, flaunting, florid, frilly, frothy, fulgurant, fulgurating, fulsome, gallant, garish, gaudy, gay, glaring, glib, glittering, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high-flowing,
high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, inkhorn, insubstantial, jaunty, jazzy, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, loud, lurid, magniloquent, meretricious, meteoric, ornate, orotund, ostentatious, overbright, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, pedantic, pompous, pretentious, rakish, raw, rhetorical, screaming, sensational, sensationalistic,
sententious,
shallow, showy, shrieking, skin-deep, slick, snazzy, sonorous, sparkling, splashy, splurgy, sporty, stilted, superficial, surface, tacky, tall, tasteless, tawdry, thin, tinsel, tortuous, vulgar