Flamboyant \Flam*boy"ant\, a. [F.] (Arch.)
Characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the
tracery of windows, etc.; -- said of the later (15th century)
French Gothic style.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
flamboyant
adj 1: elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant
handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech" [syn: aureate,
florid, showy]
2: richly and brilliantly colorful [syn: resplendent, unrestrained]
n : showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely
planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of
scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus
Poinciana [syn: royal poinciana, flame tree, peacock
flower, Delonix regia, Poinciana regia]
WordNet (r) 2.0
105 Moby Thesaurus words for "flamboyant":
Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, arabesque, baroque, bedazzling,
bedizened, big-sounding, blinding, bright, bright and shining,
brilliant, busy, chichi, convoluted, dashing, dazzling,
declamatory, decorated, effulgent, elaborate, elegant, elevated,
embellished, euphuistic, extravagant, fancy, fine, flaming, flashy,
flaunting, florid, flowery, frilly, fulgent, fulgid, fulsome,
fussy, garish, gaudy, glaring, glary, grandiloquent, grandiose,
grandisonant, high, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying,
high-sounding, high-wrought, highfalutin, inkhorn, jaunty, labored,
labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, luscious, luxuriant,
luxurious, magniloquent, meretricious, moresque, ornamented,
ornate, orotund, ostentatious, overdone, overelaborate,
overelegant, overinvolved, overlabored, overworked, overwrought,
peacockish, peacocky, pedantic, picturesque, pompous, pretentious,
pretty-pretty, rakish, refulgent, resplendent, rhetorical, rich,
rococo, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy,
sonorous, splashy, splendent, splendid, splendorous, stilted,
swank, swashbuckling, tall, tortuous, vivid, wide
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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