Definition of Flashy
1. Adjective. Tastelessly showy. "Tawdry ornaments"
Similar to: Tasteless
Derivative terms: Cheapness, Flash, Flashiness, Garishness, Garishness, Gaud, Gaudiness, Gaudiness, Loudness, Meretriciousness, Tackiness, Tat, Tawdriness, Trashiness
2. Adjective. (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display.
Similar to: Colorful, Colourful
Derivative terms: Flash, Flashiness, Gaudiness, Gaudiness, Showiness
Definition of Flashy
1. a. Dazzling for a moment; making a momentary show of brilliancy; transitorily bright.
Definition of Flashy
1. gaudy [adj FLASHIER, FLASHIEST] : FLASHILY [adv] - See also: gaudy
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Literary usage of Flashy
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1. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"In a slang or cant sense, referring to a flashy or dashing young fellow:
blood (xlang), flash man (cant), swell (slang); see GAMBLER. sportsman, n. hunter, ..."
2. Studies of a Biographer by Sir Leslie Stephen (1902)
"Tom Paine was considered for the time a Tom Fool to him ; Paley an old woman ;
Edmund Burke a flashy sophist. "Throw away your books of chemistry," said ..."
3. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"Solon made it a law that virtuous women should appear in simple and modest apparel,
but that harlots should always dress in flashy or flowered robes. ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"All her misfortunes may be traced to her mistaking flashy attractions for solid
worth. Other sovereigns have indeed made favourites of objectionable persons ..."
5. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"For, though, all know, that flashy spark From С—st—r—gh received a NOBBER. 2.
(showmen's).—See quots. 1890. Echo, 30 Oct. NOBBER is beach slang for ..."
6. The Theological and Literary Journal (1853)
"... which exhibit religion as little else than a vague and flashy sentimentalism.
7. ELEMENTARY LATIN GRAMMAR AND EXERCISES ; of the Classical Series, ..."
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