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flashy [ˈflæʃɪ] adj flashier, flashiest
1. brilliant and dazzling, esp for a short time or in a superficial way 2. cheap and ostentatious flashily adv flashiness n ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
flashy adjective showy, loud, over the top (informal), flamboyant, brash, tacky (informal), flaunting, glitzy (slang), tasteless, naff (Brit. slang), gaudy, garish, jazzy (informal), tawdry, ostentatious, snazzy (informal), glittery, meretricious, cheap and nasty, in poor taste, tinselly a flashy sports car natural, plain, modest, low-key, understated, unaffected, downbeat Translations flashy [ˈflæʃi] adj (pejorative) [person] → tapageur/euse; [thing] → tape-à-l'œil inv flashy [ˈflæʃɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-est (superl))) (pej) (car, clothes) → vistoso/a; (person) → appariscente flashy [ˈflæʃɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-est (superl))) (pej) (car, clothes) → vistoso/a; (person) → appariscente How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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SIMI VALLEY - The charred ``Welcome to Simi Valley'' sign greeting visitors along the freeway as they drive into the community will soon get a new, flashier look. Calogero (Lillo Brancato) is the boy become a man who must choose between steady virtue and something flashier but less substantial. There, the most virile of the males proved even flashier than in the greenhouse, sometimes siring 71 percent of seeds in another plant, Mitchell's team says in the January American Journal of Botany. |
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