Showy
['ʃəʊɪ] or ['ʃoi]
Definition
(a.) Making a show; attracting attention; presenting a marked appearance; ostentatious; gay; gaudy.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Gaudy, flashy, gay, glaring, gairish, flaunting, gorgeous, splendid, fine, dressy, jaunty, airy, bedizened, pranked out.[2]. Grand, stately, ostentatious, pompous, magnificent.
Checker: Micawber
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN: Oajv_gaudy, high-colored, gorgeous, flashy, tinsel
ANT:Inconspicuous, unnoticeable, quiet, subdued
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Definition
adj. making a show: cutting a dash: ostentatious: gay.—adv. Show′ily.—n. Show′iness.
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Examples
- A showy demonstration--a telling exhibition--must be got up for public view, and all means were fair to this end. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It had once been hung with a showy and expensive paper, which now hung mouldering, torn and discolored, from the damp walls. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The Grand Duke was dressed in the handsome and showy uniform of a Cossack officer. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A stout, handsome, and showy woman was in the ladies' cabin. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- For quick action, nicely adjusted machinery, and showy finish the steam fire engine is a familiar and conspicuous application of steam power. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In sailed her three daughters, a showy trio, being all three well-grown, and more or less handsome. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- That's a showy sort of thing to do, you know, said Mr. Brooke. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You know what I mean--you know it's only the showy things that are cheap. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Mrs. Colonel Dent was less showy; but, I thought, more lady-like. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The inside of the great mosque is very showy with variegated marble walls and with windows and inscriptions of elaborate mosaic. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The Greek Chapel is the most roomy, the richest and the showiest chapel in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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