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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Showy \Show"y\, adjective [Compar. {Showier}; superl. {Showiest}.] Making a show; attracting attention; presenting a marked appearance; ostentatious; gay; gaudy.
A present of everything that was rich and showy. --Addison.
Syn: Splendid; gay; gaudy; gorgeous; fine; magnificent; grand; stately; sumptuous; pompous.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
showy
adjective
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
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