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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Flashy \Flash"y\, adjective
1. Dazzling for a moment; making a momentary show of brilliancy; transitorily bright.
A little flashy and transient pleasure. --Barrow.
2. Fiery; vehement; impetuous.
A temper always flashy. --Burke.
3. Showy; gay; gaudy; as, a flashy dress.
4. Without taste or spirit.
Lean and flashy songs. --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
flashy
adjective
1: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn: {brassy}, {cheap}, {flash}, {garish}, {gaudy}, {gimcrack}, {loud}, {meretricious}, {tacky}, {tatty}, {tawdry}, {trashy}]
2: (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display [syn: {gaudy}, {jazzy}, {showy}, {sporty}] [also: {flashiest}, {flashier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
108 Moby Thesaurus words for "flashy": Gongoresque, Johnsonian, ablaze, affected, aflame, bedizened, big-sounding, blatant, blazing, blinding, brave, bravura, braw, brazen, burning, cheap, chichi, chintzy, convoluted, cosmetic, crude, daring, dashing, declamatory, dressy, elevated, euphuistic, exhibitionistic, facile, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flash, flashing, flaunting, florid, frilly, frothy, fulgurant, fulgurating, fulsome, gallant, garish, gaudy, gay, glaring, glib, glittering, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, inkhorn, insubstantial, jaunty, jazzy, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, loud, lurid, magniloquent, meretricious, meteoric, ornate, orotund, ostentatious, overbright, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, pedantic, pompous, pretentious, rakish, raw, rhetorical, screaming, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, shallow, showy, shrieking, skin-deep, slick, snazzy, sonorous, sparkling, splashy, splurgy, sporty, stilted, superficial, surface, tacky, tall, tasteless, tawdry, thin, tinsel, tortuous, vulgar
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