Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Cheap and showy; gaudy. synonym: garish.
- adjective Giving a momentary or superficial impression of brilliance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Insipid; vapid; without taste or spirit, as food or drink.
- Like a flash: characterized by flashes or flashing; specifically, acting by flashes, or by fits and starts; quick; impulsive; fiery.
- Showy; dazzling for a moment, but not lasting, solid, or real; meretricious.
- Ostentatiously showy in appearance; gay; gaudy; tawdry: as, a flashy dress.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Dazzling for a moment; making a momentary show of brilliancy; transitorily bright.
- adjective Fiery; vehement; impetuous.
- adjective Showy; gay; gaudy.
- adjective Without taste or spirit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Showy ;visually impressive , attention-getting, orappealing .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective tastelessly showy
- adjective (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display
Etymologies
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Examples
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"He is what I call a flashy liver," says Marshall.
Field Marshal 2008
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Younger drivers in flashy SUVs or sporty small cars are still ticket magnets, too.
Is Your Car Getting You More Traffic Tickets? Joseph B. White 2010
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On the one hand, this gave the profession enough self-doubt to allow some of its brighter sons to start noodling around with the past, and to discover it was a fine thing; on the other hand, it gave us Frank Gehry, that dealer in flashy junk heaps, a sort of superficial Dinocretes writ larger than Vitruvius could have ever imagined.
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Young men and women dressed in flashy pants and skimpy dresses sat at long tables on three sides of a dance floor, downing huge amounts of cheap whiskey.
Thai Noon 2008
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Young men and women dressed in flashy pants and skimpy dresses sat at long tables on three sides of a dance floor, downing huge amounts of cheap whiskey.
Thai Noon 2008
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The moment I entered the shop, I was instantly attracted to Sony's DJ headphones (in flashy packaging) which had a frequency between 14 Hz and 22,000Hz.
Archive 2007-08-01 2007
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The moment I entered the shop, I was instantly attracted to Sony's DJ headphones (in flashy packaging) which had a frequency between 14 Hz and 22,000Hz.
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He did not engage in flashy reform, or buzz-word-of-the-day ‘programs’ which places like Curry churn out endlessly.
A Brief History of C'ville Superintendents at cvillenews.com 2005
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In China, legions of newly rich are characterized by flashy, big-ticket spending.
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He ain't what you call a flashy dresser, but he lays it all over the young chaps like Thad West who think they're so swell. "
Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale Harriet L. Smith
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