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 Definitions for showy: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Showy \Show"y\, a. [Compar. Showier; superl. Showiest.]
Making a show; attracting attention; presenting a marked
appearance; ostentatious; gay; gaudy.
[1913 Webster]
A present of everything that was rich and showy.
--Addison.
[1913 Webster]
Syn: Splendid; gay; gaudy; gorgeous; fine; magnificent;
grand; stately; sumptuous; pompous.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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showy
adj 1: marked by conspicuous display; "a cheap showy rhinestone
bracelet"; "a splashy half-page ad" [syn: splashy]
2: elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant
handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech" [syn: aureate,
florid, flamboyant]
3: marked by extravagant display
4: (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display
[syn: flashy, gaudy, jazzy, sporty]
[also: showiest, showier]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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90 Moby Thesaurus words for "showy":
Byzantine, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, arabesque, baroque,
bedizened, big-sounding, brave, bravura, braw, chichi, conspicuous,
convoluted, daring, dashing, declamatory, dressy, elaborate,
elevated, euphuistic, exhibitionistic, fancy, flamboyant, flaming,
flashing, flashy, flaunting, florid, frilly, frothy, fulsome,
fussy, gallant, garish, gaudy, gay, glittering, gorgeous,
grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown,
high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, inkhorn, intricate,
jaunty, jazzy, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, luxurious,
magniloquent, meretricious, opulent, ornate, orotund, ostentatious,
overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, peacockish,
peacocky, pedantic, pompous, pretentious, rakish, resplendent,
rhetorical, rococo, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious,
show-off, snazzy, sonorous, splashy, splurgy, sporty, stilted,
sumptuous, swank, tall, tawdry, tortuous
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