flashy
/ˈflaʃi
/adjective (flashier, flashiest)
Ostentatiously attractive or impressive: he always had a flashy car...
- Parents and children watch as people compete for big bucks, expensive holidays and flashy cars.
- Henry's flashy gold outfit was impressive but the best bit were his golden boots.
- He had a job, a flashy car and the money to impress a young girl.
Synonyms
ostentatious, showy, bold, flamboyant, conspicuous, obtrusive, extravagant, expensive, pretentious;
vulgar, tasteless, in bad/poor taste, tawdry, brash, lurid, garish, loud, gaudy, crude, trashy
informal snazzy, nifty, fancy, swanky, flash, jazzy, glitzy, ritzy, tacky, fancy-pants, naff, kitsch, Brummagem
North American informal bling-bling
Derivatives
flashily
/ adverb ...- At times they seemed to spend it flashily just because they could.
- It ended as flashily as it had started.
- Imperial Teen do it more flashily and interestingly, but the odd thing about Track Star is that it's precisely their lack of being interesting that makes them charming.
flashiness
/ noun ...- It's not known for its flashiness or for its amazing horsepower, and it's definitely not the most aesthetically pleasing car out there.
- But this is not just flashiness for the sake of it.
- Tai chi is calm and tranquil, and lacks the glamour or flashiness of aerobics.
Rhymes
- thereby hangs a tale
- the Reconstruction
- the red planet
- therefor
- therefore
- therefrom
- the Regency
- there goes ——
- therein
- thereinafter
- thereinbefore
- thereinto
- there is little (or nothing) to choose between
- there is method in someone's madness
- there is no harm in ——
- there is no help for it
- there is no holding someone
- there is no knowing
- there is no mistaking ——
- there is no rose without a thorn
- there is no saying
- there is no telling
- there is nothing like
- there is nothing to it
- (there is) no time like the present