Showy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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