Flashy \Flash"y\, a.
1. Dazzling for a moment; making a momentary show of
brilliancy; transitorily bright.
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A little flashy and transient pleasure. --Barrow.
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2. Fiery; vehement; impetuous.
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A temper always flashy. --Burke.
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3. Showy; gay; gaudy; as, a flashy dress.
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4. Without taste or spirit.
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Lean and flashy songs. --Milton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
108 Moby Thesaurus words for "flashy":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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